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Checkpoint Theatre enters their 2017 season with a throwback with their previously sold out show – Normal by Faith Ng. Directed by Claire Wong, their 2015 smash hit returns to the Drama Centre Black Box, and its themes of education and expectations remain as pertinent as ever. Secondary 5 Normal Academic students Ashley and Daphne struggle in school, juggling a potent cocktail of demands from their … Continue reading Preview: Normal by Checkpoint Theatre
Award winning and critically acclaimed Nine Years Theatre opens their 2017 season with a production of Fundamentally Happy, Haresh Sharma’s Life! Theatre Award winning script (Best Production, Best Script 2007) first staged by The Necessary Stage. Fundamentally Happy is a two character play that follows 30 year old Eric (Timothy Wan) as he revisits his childhood neighbour Habiba (Lok Meng Chue), as the place he spent … Continue reading Preview: Fundamentally Happy by Nine Years Theatre
Toy Factory starts off the year with the big budget production of Prism. Tackling issues of gentrification, progress and history, Prism is a monster of a play with a big message to tell. Prism bears many similar themes to plays like Jean Tay’s Boom, offering commentary on our endless, inevitable march of progress and refusing to stop even for a moment to consider what’s lost in the progress, as … Continue reading Review: Prism by Toy Factory
First staged in 2007, The Pillowman returns to the stage, once again deftly helmed by the indomitable Tracie Pang and an incredible cast and creative team. Written by Scottish playwright Martin McDonagh, The Pillowman takes the form of a police procedural drama with a twist – the murders follow the exact same killing methods as writer Katurian’s dark fairytales (Daniel Jenkins). Put in the hot seat … Continue reading Review: The Pillowman by Pangdemonium!
What happens when you get a theatre director to choreograph a dance piece? You’ll probably get something like Indices of Vanishment, assuming you have the directorship of as capable a practitioner as Edith Podesta and the leadership of Artistic Director Ricky Sim. Riffing on RAW Moves’ 2017 season theme of Clutter, Podesta crafts an intimate, powerful piece about the baggage we hold in life, and despite it being her … Continue reading Review: Indices of Vanishment by RAW Moves
The Singapore Fighting Championship’s (SFC) first event of the year, Fight For Hope – The Singapore Kickboxing Nationals will take place on 25 February 2017, in collaboration with Trifecta Martial Arts. The event is sanctioned by the World Association of Kickboxing Organization (WAKO), and searches for Singapore’s top kickboxers to join the National Kickboxing Team. One of the highlights of the night will include bouts by WAKO’s national kickboxer, … Continue reading Preview: Fight For Hope – Singapore Kickboxing Nationals
Making its Singaporean debut, SRT proudly presents Nick Payne’s Constellations! Originally setting hearts aflutter with Jake Gyllenhaal in its Broadway run, this timeless tale of boy meets girl takes a twist, playing on the infinite ‘what ifs’ in other lives. The romantic course of Marianne (Singapore born and raised Stephanie Street) and Roland (UK actor Edward Harrison), a physicist and beekeeper, is charted over a series of … Continue reading Preview: Constellations by SRT
Detention Katong is the latest big budget production from Dream Academy. If you’ve ever been through secondary school, or know anyone currently going through it, then this is one musical you can’t miss. The concept of detention can hold different meanings for people – a dreaded label that one is a ‘bad person’ or even escape from the world. Written by Selena Tan and co-directed by … Continue reading Review: Detention Katong by Dream Academy
The young & W!LD team is back with Crossings this weekend, a double-bill production that serves up some rather bold juxtapositions. Take for instance the fact that Crossings plays at Centre 42 at Bras Basah, right across from the church volunteer-run Crossings Café. Coincidence? Perhaps not. young & W!LD’s latest batch of young theatre-makers seem keen to shake things up a little for the Singaporean … Continue reading Review: Crossings by young & W!LD
The UK touring company of Broadway and West End sensation Chicago, directed by Ian Waller, has finally made its way to our shores, coming straight in after a show in Birmingham. And while the wait was long, it was worth it. Having been adapted into an Academy Award winning film and receiving critical acclaim onstage, Chicago is one of those musicals that’s hard to go wrong with. Following the … Continue reading Review: Chicago @ Mastercard Theatres
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