Preview: Dear Elena (青春禁忌游戏) by Nine Years Theatre

Nine Years Theatre returns this October for their third and final production of the year. Following the premiere of brand new play First Fleet in July, the company returns to their roots with Dear Elena, with artistic director Nelson Chia adapting a Russian play into Mandarin. Originally written by Russian playwright Lyudmila Razumovskaya, Dear Elena Sergeevna, the original play, was first staged at the beginning of … Continue reading Preview: Dear Elena (青春禁忌游戏) by Nine Years Theatre

Preview: Pangdemonium!’s Ass-Kicking 2020 Season – The Son, The Glass Menagerie and The Full Monty

10 years ago, a humble theatre company was founded by actor Adrian Pang and his wife, director Tracie Pang, ditching their day jobs to follow their dreams. 10 years on, through perils, pitfalls and potholes, and plenty more successes, and Pangdemonium! has emerged as one of Singapore’s top and most popular theatre companies today, reliably delivering one quality production after another to sold-out audiences, and … Continue reading Preview: Pangdemonium!’s Ass-Kicking 2020 Season – The Son, The Glass Menagerie and The Full Monty

Pangdemonium’s Urinetown: An Interview with the Cast and their Pee-rs

Urinetown may be a work of fiction, but with issues such as a “cross-border water crisis” and being set in “the most expensive city in the world”, it bears more than a pissing passing resemblance to a certain place far closer to home. As Pangdemonium gets ready to present this raucous, campy musical satire (which won Best Book and Best Original Score at the 2002 Tony … Continue reading Pangdemonium’s Urinetown: An Interview with the Cast and their Pee-rs

Teater Ekamatra’s A Clockwork Orange: An Interview with the Cast and Creatives

British author Anthony Burgess’ seminal novel A Clockwork Orange has seen countless adaptations over the years, from stage plays to its best known iteration – a 1971 film version directed by Stanley Kubrick. But of all these adaptations, one we’ve yet to see is a version created in a Singaporean context. Enter Teater Ekamatra’s newest production – a Malay language adaptation of A Clockwork Orange, set to premiere this September, … Continue reading Teater Ekamatra’s A Clockwork Orange: An Interview with the Cast and Creatives

Review: a line could be crossed and you would cease to be by Intercultural Theatre Institute

Gorgeous, intimate play examining climate change. In the Intercultural Theatre Institute’s (ITI) new production, the latest batch of graduating students tackle the ever-looming issue of climate change with Australian playwright Andrew Sutherland’s a line could be crossed and you would slowly cease to be. Directed by Koh Wan Ching (known for arresting, colourful visuals), the oblique, wandering text is given gorgeous form as the play … Continue reading Review: a line could be crossed and you would cease to be by Intercultural Theatre Institute

Review: 1984 by The Young Company

The latest batch of Young Company graduates tackles Orwell’s magnum opus. George Orwell’s 1984 is a classic of modern literature, imagining a terrifying dystopian world of surveillance states and totalitarian governments. And come the chaotic state of the world today, more than ever, it feels as if that world is becoming a reality we cannot deny. With this new production by The Young Company’s latest graduating … Continue reading Review: 1984 by The Young Company

Preview: A Clockwork Orange by Teater Ekamatra

  In a city filled with often-broken promises, I am your good narrator, brother. Now, help yourself. As I warble, and you peet. A dash of blood and a little keroncong. Alas there will be no hollow after our hearts grow stale of crying. Gathering some of the best talents in local theatre today, Teater Ekamatra is set to stun with a brand new, Malay … Continue reading Preview: A Clockwork Orange by Teater Ekamatra

Preview: Urinetown – The Musical by Pangdemonium

Following their mid-year production of original play This is What Happens to Pretty Girls, Pangdemonium rounds off the year with one heck of a splash with multiple-award winning musical satire Urinetown.  Gleefully taking the piss out of politicians, populism, “people power”, capitalism, corporate corruption, and musicals themselves, local audience members may find more than a passing similarity to home as Pangdemonium immerses them in a fictitious “most expensive city … Continue reading Preview: Urinetown – The Musical by Pangdemonium

M1 Patch! 2019: PROJECT Utopia《望眼吾托邦》 by The Theatre Practice (Review)

The Practice Space becomes a lab to experiment and play with the concept of ‘Utopia’. English writer Thomas Moore was the first person to write about utopias, or an imaginary perfect world. Can such a place exist in real life, or is it doomed to forever be a land of fiction? With The Theatre Practice’s PROJECT Utopia, five international artists then come together to distil that question … Continue reading M1 Patch! 2019: PROJECT Utopia《望眼吾托邦》 by The Theatre Practice (Review)

Preview: a line could be crossed and you would cease to be by Intercultural Theatre Institute

Following their devised production The Peculiar Tra La back in March, the newest graduating cohort of the Intercultural Theatre Institute (ITI) are back this September with yet another brand new play for their second production of the year. Created by Australian playwright Andrew Sutherland, a line could be crossed and you would slowly cease to be plays at the Drama Centre Black Box from 5th to 7th September, … Continue reading Preview: a line could be crossed and you would cease to be by Intercultural Theatre Institute