Category: Theatre

Arts, Singapore, Theatre

Preview: Railway Records by Desert Wine

  Desert Wine’s Comfort Theatre Series returns this weekend with a brand new production, this time with a site-specific theatre work titled Railway Records.  Held in partnership with the Bicentennial, the free performance runs at the black truss bridge at the former Bukit Timah Railway Station on Saturday, March 30th for six 30 minute sessions, showcasing five monologues that capture the last 116 years of our passenger … Continue reading Preview: Railway Records by Desert Wine

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The Studios 2019: An Interview with Natalie Hennedige, Director of Rubber Girl On The Loose

so This week, the Esplanade’s new season of The Studios returns, presenting a lineup of intimate, powerful theatre shows playing at both the Theatre Studio and Annexe Studio. Kicking off the season is Cake Theatrical Productions with their hotly anticipated new production Rubber Girl On The Loose.  Based off Sophocles’s Antigone, this new interpretation of the Greek classic carries on in Cake’s tradition of reworking Greek plays (following … Continue reading The Studios 2019: An Interview with Natalie Hennedige, Director of Rubber Girl On The Loose

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Arts, china, Interview, Theatre, travel, travelXculture

Sleep No More《不眠之夜》: An Interview with Punchdrunk Artistic Director Felix Barrett

SHANGHAI, CHINA – It’s been almost three years since Punchdrunk brought their blockbuster immersive theatre experience Sleep No More to Shanghai, and the success they’ve seen so far isn’t letting up anytime soon, as good as or even better than previous editions staged in New York and London. Based off Shakespeare’s classic tragedy Macbeth, Sleep No More takes the experience up a level by turning it into a film noir-like tale, … Continue reading Sleep No More《不眠之夜》: An Interview with Punchdrunk Artistic Director Felix Barrett

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Review: Goddesses of Words – Sarojini Naidu by Grace Kalaiselvi

It can happen to anyone and everyone. When Grace Kalaiselvi asked her actresses to read the poems of Sarojini Naidu in preparation for her all new Goddesses of Words series (aimed at highlighting female Indian poets writing in English), each performer somehow connected almost instantly with the theme of trauma, and more specifically, sexual assault. While not all of the poems necessarily put trauma at … Continue reading Review: Goddesses of Words – Sarojini Naidu by Grace Kalaiselvi

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Review: Bette Davis on the Edge presented by Wag the Dog Theatre

Unravelling the woman behind the star. Performing an icon is no easy feat, but if it’s anyone who’s done Bette Davis justice, it’s Christine St. John. Presented by Wag the Dog Theatre for its Asian premiere, St. John performed her solo show Bette Davis On The Edge in Singapore this week, where, channeling Davis into her performance, Davis, on 31st October 1962, recounts her life and times … Continue reading Review: Bette Davis on the Edge presented by Wag the Dog Theatre

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Review: FAUST/US (浮世/德) by Nine Years Theatre

Lest the demons get to me. Written by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe in the early 1800s, there is a timelessness to the narrative and themes discussed in Faust that have led to it becoming an inspiration for countless other works of art, and its regard as one of the greatest works of German literature. To stage it in a new capacity then, is certainly a challenging … Continue reading Review: FAUST/US (浮世/德) by Nine Years Theatre

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Arts, Comedy, Concert, Dance with Me, Hong Kong, Preview, Theatre

Hong Kong 2019: Hong Kong Repertory Theatre Announces 2019-2020 Season – Long Live The Classics!

HONG KONG – The Hong Kong Repertory Theatre has launched its 2019–20 season, themed “Long Live the Classics!” The season focuses on both classic works that have stood the test of time, while also producing new work in the hopes of establishing brand new modern classics of the future. Season highlights include the contemporary Chinese masterpiece A Dream Like a Dream, the renowned Cantonese musical The Good Person of … Continue reading Hong Kong 2019: Hong Kong Repertory Theatre Announces 2019-2020 Season – Long Live The Classics!

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Arts, London, Preview, Theatre, travel, travelXculture

In London’s (Off) West End 2019: Funeral Flowers at The Bunker (Preview)

LONDON –This April, Emma Dennis-Edwards presents Funeral Flowers, exploring trauma, relationships, and our human instincts to find the courage to survive. Having won the Filipa Bragança Award for an outstanding solo theatre performance by an actress for her Fringe First award-winning run of this production at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2018, Funeral Flowers uses lyrical spoken word and floristry demonstration to bring audiences into the world of seventeen-year-old Angelique, … Continue reading In London’s (Off) West End 2019: Funeral Flowers at The Bunker (Preview)

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In London’s West End 2019: White Christmas the Musical at the Dominion Theatre (Preview)

LONDON – This Christmas season, Jamie Wilson, Mark Goucher, Gavin Kalin and Kevin McCollum present the brand new Made at Curve production of Irving Berlin’s White Christmas at London’s Dominion Theatre from 15th November 2019 to 4th January 2020.  Based on the hit 1954 musical film of the same name starring Bing Crosby and Phil Davis, White Christmas follows singers who perform a Christmas show in rural Vermont – upon the boys … Continue reading In London’s West End 2019: White Christmas the Musical at the Dominion Theatre (Preview)

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Always Every Time: An Interview with Ground Z-0 Artistic Director Zelda Tatiana Ng

It’s a Saturday evening as we stand in the liminal space between a block of flats and the back exits of Chinatown Point. A cool breeze blows by, a welcome respite from the sweltering heat of the last few days, and we watch as Zelda Tatiana Ng draws a long breath from the cigarette perched between her left index and middle finger. Suddenly, she recalls: … Continue reading Always Every Time: An Interview with Ground Z-0 Artistic Director Zelda Tatiana Ng

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