The Best Singapore Has To Offer.
“my love is a friday pouring and a black wave cresting and crashing down the living room shore” Linying has been blowing up recently. From her surprise hit Sticky Leaves to topping the Singapore iTunes charts with her debut 5-track EP, this girl is really making a name for herself. With her debut non-Singapore gig in London tonight, Linying seems set to take over the world one … Continue reading Review: Linying @ Camden Assembly [1/11/16]
The Singapore International Film Festival enters its 27th year, and as always, brings together some of the very best of new independent cinema to our little red dot. This time around, it’s going to have a fiercely Asian theme, courtesy of the team headed by festival Executive Director Yuni Hadi and Programme Director Zhang Wenjie. This year, the festival will screen 161 carefully curated feature length … Continue reading Preview: Singapore International Film Festival 2016 – Telling Our Stories
Watch Singapore’s history come alive as Serene Chen and Jean Ng recap key milestones of Singapore’s literary scene in their captivating performance, Rant and Rave II. Beyond The Bookworm Club, Bonnie Hicks, Flame of the Forest and Borders bookstore, Rant and Rave II presents the various struggles writers have been contending with since the 1950s. Should writers write only what the public wants to read? … Continue reading Preview: Rant And Rave II by The Finger Players
twentythirty is a show that’s more community theatre than avant garde. Sitting in the room full of secondary school students, I felt young again surrounded by youth. As the show began, Dramabox introduced the audience the the concept of forum theatre, which if you weren’t already aware, uses theatre as a means to discuss societal issues, allowing audiences to participate and voice their own opinions in … Continue reading Review: twentythirty by Dramabox [27/10/16]
By 2030, there will be 6.9 million people in Singapore. How will it affect you? Similar to International Friendship Day, the Singapore Kindness Movement is once again collaborating with a theatre company to produce a new play about our increasingly diverse population, with classmates, neighbors and people on the street from all over the world. Taking on a forum theatre style aimed at teens, the … Continue reading Preview: twentythirty by DramaBox
Got your head spinning deciding what shows to catch this school holiday? SRT is here to offer up two tantalising shows this November! Firstly, there’s the Singaporean premiere of Pulitzer-Prize winning play Disgraced, which has also become the most staged play in the US in 2016! Disgraced follows Amir, an American born Muslim who’s achieved the American Dream with a great job and beautiful artist wife (who happens … Continue reading Preview: Two great shows to catch this November!
Desmond Sim’s one man play Shrimps in Space is finally getting a revival this November! First written in 1999 and lauded for its heart and humour, we follow the life of Lim Huat Bee (Hang Qian Chou of Nine Years Theatre) as he grows up. Known as ‘Hay Bee’ to his friends (shrimp), Lim is a skinny, scrawny ‘shrimp’of a boy cautiously navigating his way through school … Continue reading [Preview] Shrimps in Space by GenerAsia Limited
The Necessary Stage rounds off their 2016 season with a sequel to their 2013 piece Best Of, which starred Siti K. Titled Best Of (His Story), the performance is once again written by Haresh Sharma and directed by Alvin Tan, and stars TV and theatre’s Sani Hussin, playing the role of Siti K’s husband, now taking to the stage to tell his side of the story. We … Continue reading Preview+Interview: Best Of (His Story) by The Necessary Stage
The annual W!ld Rice pantomime is back! W!ld Rice is bringing back their hit musical and last year’s Life! Theatre Award Production of the Year Monkey Goes West this Christmas season, a perfect send off to the year of the Monkey! Monkey Goes West riffs on the Chinese fantasy classic Journey to the West, where orphan Ah Tang embarks on an epic quest in a strange land, joined by … Continue reading Preview: Monkey Goes West by W!ld Rice
If you think your funny bone is broken, look no further than these doctors to heal you with humour. After all, laughter is the best medicine. Enter Dream Academy’s 3rd iteration of Happy Ever Laughter: Standup Comedy Madness, the hit series that brings together the very best of local standup comedy in one big night of fun-filled digs at our little red dot! This year’s edition features a whopping … Continue reading Preview: Happy Ever Laughter: Standup Comedy Madness! by Dream Academy
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