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Toy Factory’s Lab Projects 2018: An Interview with Playwright Zhu Xin Chen and Director Goh Boon Teck of Oedipus (鞭爱)

This week, Toy Factory productions launches into their 2018 edition of the Lab Projects, presenting brand new plays staged in their own home in Chinatown at NOWPlaying@17. In the first of two works, the company will be presenting Zhu Xin Chen’s Oedipus, a dark mystery following a severely disabled man who has whipped his 50 year old mother to death. As we follow an officer determined to get … Continue reading Toy Factory’s Lab Projects 2018: An Interview with Playwright Zhu Xin Chen and Director Goh Boon Teck of Oedipus (鞭爱)

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Pangdemonium’s Peter and the Starcatcher: An Interview with Tracie Pang, Adrian Pang and Carina McWhinnie

Pangdemonium returns for their final production of the season this September with a far lighter show than their usual fare – the Singaporean premiere of five-time Tony Award winning play Peter and the Starcatcher! Based on Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson’s novel of the same name, itself a prequel to J.M. Barrie’s Peter Pan, Peter and the Starcatcher is a swashbuckling adventure on the high seas as the … Continue reading Pangdemonium’s Peter and the Starcatcher: An Interview with Tracie Pang, Adrian Pang and Carina McWhinnie

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Review: Tiger of Malaya by Teater Ekamatra

Interrogating history through a filmic lens. There’s a saying that history is written by the victors, leaving plenty of warped accounts and representations scattered throughout media. Singapore, of course, isn’t exempt from this, with films by foreigners throughout history appropriating both the country and its people to better bring out their own agenda. Given the benefit of hindsight then, if we were to have a chance … Continue reading Review: Tiger of Malaya by Teater Ekamatra

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Re-appropriating Film History: An Interview with The Cast and Creatives of Teater Ekamatra’s Tiger of Malaya

This week will see the premiere of Teater Ekamatra’s latest production – Tiger of Malaya. A brand new play written by Alfian Sa’at and Shawn Chua, Tiger of Malaya takes inspiration from the 1943 Japanese film ‘The Tiger of Malaya’, following a group of actors in the present day who attempt to be more accurate in their re-enaction of the film, comically ‘correcting’ history with their portrayal. We … Continue reading Re-appropriating Film History: An Interview with The Cast and Creatives of Teater Ekamatra’s Tiger of Malaya

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Preview: Lear Is Dead (李尔亡) by Nine Years Theatre

“We used to think power is our life’s goal, forgetting that wisdom is what our lives are founded upon.” Following their reimagination of Strindberg’s Miss Julie earlier this year, Nine Years Theatre will present their third and final production of the season with another reimagination of a theatre classic: Shakespeare’s King Lear. For Nine Years Theatre, while no stranger to adapting classic works into Mandarin, Lear … Continue reading Preview: Lear Is Dead (李尔亡) by Nine Years Theatre

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Preview: Musical TARU 《恐龙复活了！》 by Resorts World Sentosa

From the same team that brought you Super Mommy in June, this December, Resorts World Sentosa Singapore (RWS) returns with their second production of the year – Musical TARU.  Produced by RWS in collaboration with Taiwan’s AMcreative and South Korea’s Culture Holic, Musical TARU is a localised adaptation  the ‘No. 1 Family Musical’ in Korea. Fuelled by the curiosity to discover more about a natural history museum’s … Continue reading Preview: Musical TARU 《恐龙复活了！》 by Resorts World Sentosa

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Preview: Toy Factory’s Lab Projects 2018 – Oedipus (鞭爱) and Watching

This September and October, Toy Factory will once again be throwing open the doors of their home in Chinatown as it becomes NOWplaying@17, becoming an incubation space for new and emerging work, and where members of the public will get to see two brand new lab projects presented on stage! Headed by Toy Factory Artistic Directors Goh Boon Teck and Stanley Seah, Oedipus and Watching are two brand new … Continue reading Preview: Toy Factory’s Lab Projects 2018 – Oedipus (鞭爱) and Watching

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Preview: A $ingapore Carol by W!ld Rice

As is now Christmas tradition, after last year’s Mama White Snake, W!ld Rice returns for their 16th edition annual pantomime with perhaps the most appropriate new musical ever: A $ingapore Carol. Based off Charles Dickens’ classic A Christmas Carol, perhaps the hallmark holiday story, A $ingapore Carol puts a keenly local twist and strong dose of humour on the original. Written by Jonathan Lim (Four Horse Road, Diva To The Death), A … Continue reading Preview: A $ingapore Carol by W!ld Rice

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Still Life: Open Studios by Checkpoint Theatre

Dana Lam is perhaps most famous for being a former President of the Association of Women for Action and Research (AWARE), alongside having published a photobook during the heady GE 2006 days. But did you also know that she’s a trained artist? Once taught by Milenko and Delia Prvacki, Dana has been given the chance of a lifetime: produced by Checkpoint Theatre, Dana will tell the … Continue reading Still Life: Open Studios by Checkpoint Theatre

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Both Sides, Now: Last Dance and Closer by Drama Box and ArtsWok Collaborative

Following a successful participatory theatre experience back in March, Drama Box and ArtsWok Collaborative’s Both Sides, Now project returns this September. A community engagement project aiming to share and facilitate within communities what it means to live and leave well, this new edition of the project will be a participatory performance entitled Last Dance. Last Dance will see a departure from previous editions of Both Sides, Now, going for a … Continue reading Both Sides, Now: Last Dance and Closer by Drama Box and ArtsWok Collaborative

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