Preview: World Gourmet Summit 2017

Famed for bringing in world-class international cuisine, the exciting World Gourmet Summit returns to our shores for its 21st edition next March! This time, with a focus on sustainability, the WGS will unite more than 30 restaurants and 12 international chefs to form the “United National Gastronomy Assembly” (#UNGA). Chefs will be featured from countries from the likes of Canada, Hungary, Vietnam and Cuba, promising … Continue reading Preview: World Gourmet Summit 2017

Preview: M1 Singapore Fringe Festival 2017 – Art & Skin (Week 2)

After bringing you a preview of week 1’s offerings (hyperlink here), here’s week 2’s list of shows at the 2017 M1 Singapore Fringe Festival! Pretty Butch by Tan Liting Director Tan Liting takes on portrayals of gender in this ensemble performance featuring five characters grappling with living on the edge of masculinity and femininity in a society that harasses them for it. Pretty Butch explores the possibility … Continue reading Preview: M1 Singapore Fringe Festival 2017 – Art & Skin (Week 2)

Review: In Search of Salt by Passerby Projects and Dream Bravely

Passerby Projects’ latest production features a collaboration with Dream Bravely, with an original script by writer Sarah Howell, who also directed the piece that melds the mysteries of the internet with a mysterious death. In Search of Salt follows Gaya (Alison Wong), whose younger sister Sel passes a few months before the events of the play. Gaya begins to receive mysterious Facebook messages from her supposedly deceased … Continue reading Review: In Search of Salt by Passerby Projects and Dream Bravely

Review: Dear Jay by Blue Bean Productions

December is a period that’s often fraught with big commercial plays and musicals to capitalise on the Christmas spirit. Sometimes you get tired of all that, and need something a little more sincere, honest and heartfelt. And that’s why Dear Jay is a breath of fresh air and one production you should be catching. Blue Bean Productions’ inaugural production Dear Jay follows Leonard (Benedict Leong), a young man … Continue reading Review: Dear Jay by Blue Bean Productions

Preview: M1 Singapore Fringe Festival 2017 – Art & Skin (Week 1)

Tinged with a little controversy (as all good Fringe festivals should be), the 2017 M1 Singapore Fringe Festival starts off the year with a bang, offering some truly odd, unusual and amazing art from Singapore and all around the world. Taking place over two weeks from 4-15 January 2017, here’s our preview of the first week’s activities to give you an idea of what to … Continue reading Preview: M1 Singapore Fringe Festival 2017 – Art & Skin (Week 1)

Review: Projek Suitcase: Metamorphosis (Part 2) by Teater Ekamatra

This is Part 2 of our review of Teater Ekamatra’s Projek Suitcase 2016, following our review of half the plays. For the next four monologues, we started off with E Lee Loong and Rizman Putra’s By The Book. A political piece featuring Rizman Putra as an overbearing actor attempting to wrest control from his director during a rehearsal, vouching that they should go with his … Continue reading Review: Projek Suitcase: Metamorphosis (Part 2) by Teater Ekamatra

Review: My Mother’s Chest

My Mother’s Chest is the debut production by Stanley Ng and starring Audrey Luo. Written by Ng Sin Yue, this hefty monologue follows one woman as she reminisces over her mother’s chest (an actual box, not her torso) and explores her past of love and loss, and the relationship with her mother which made her the person she is today. Under director Jeffrey Low, Audrey … Continue reading Review: My Mother’s Chest

Review: Projek Suitcase by Teater Ekamatra

Teater Ekamatra’s annual monologue festival is back! Projek Suitcase isn’t just people standing around delivering lines though; it’s uniting artists from all kinds of disciplines, from sound designers to film makers, from actors to bharathanatyam dancers. This year, they’ve departed from simply uniting Malay artists to becoming all-inclusive and multi-disciplinary, regardless of race, language or religion. There were also some very familiar faces involved, from musician Bani … Continue reading Review: Projek Suitcase by Teater Ekamatra

Local Inventions: Food – Doodles

Chances are unless you live in the area, you won’t have properly explored Tiong Bahru Plaza. So we’re here to tell you that over in B1 is a gem waiting to be uncovered – Doodles shake-shake noodles! Doodles is an all new way of eating your noodles, and does away with the usual need for a bowl. Instead, noodles are now made convenient by having all … Continue reading Local Inventions: Food – Doodles

Preview: Dear Jay by Blue Bean Productions

All new theatre company Blue Bean Productions will be staging their first ever production this December! Written by up and coming poet-playwright Euginia Tan, her latest piece Dear Jay hopes to bring mental illness to the forefront of audiences’ minds, as we follow the grieving process of Leonard (producer Benedict Leong) when his close friend suddenly leaves him. Conceived by Tan and Leong after a discussion … Continue reading Preview: Dear Jay by Blue Bean Productions