LONDON – Writer Kevin Mandry returns to the White Bear Theatre with a brand new play this August. Titled EROS, the play is set in the 1990s, at the dawn of the Internet. EROS follows the story of Ross. Ross used to take photos of women. He says it was about beauty. Now Kate’s back in his studio after twenty years. She remembers things differently. She says she’s there … Continue reading Preview: Eros by Kevin Mandry
A promising youth theatre performance following Bound Theatre’s year long hiatus. Youth theatre occupies an interesting space in any theatre scene, dancing on the margins where they are neither considered amateurs nor professionals, with us always hoping they’ll spend time honing their craft and eventually becoming theatre professionals of tomorrow. Promisingly, after a year long hiatus, Bound Theatre has returned to the scene with their … Continue reading Review: The Taste of Water by Bound Theatre
This September, Sing’theatre returns with an all new production of Souvenir! Based off the life of opera singer Florence Foster Jenkins, famed for her inability to sing, Souvenir! promises a show that will fill any audience member with verve, life and hope that passions are meant to be pursued, and any dream can be achieved. We spoke to director Samantha Scott-Blackhall and star of Souvenir! Leigh McDonald, who will be starring as … Continue reading Sing’theatre’s Souvenir: An Interview with Director Samantha Scott-Blackhall and star Leigh McDonald
Tan Kheng Hua is one of our favourite people. Growing up, she already firmly earned a place in our hearts and our homes as the hilarious Margaret on hit local sitcom Phua Chu Kang Pte Ltd (1997 – 2007). But even in adulthood, as we began to go to the theatre more, she became a key indicator of quality onstage, and in this website’s lifespan, we’ve … Continue reading Singaporeans on Film: Tan Kheng Hua Takes On The World with Crazy Rich Asians
LONDON – The Young Vic gets Shakespearean once more this fall, with a restaging of Kwame Kwei-Armah and Shaina Taub interpretation of the Bard’s Twelfth Night. Twelfth Night was originally performed at The Public Theater in New York as part of their Public Works program in 2016, and revisited this summer as part of their free Shakespeare in the Park Delacorte season. In this version, co-directed by Kwame Kwei-Armah and … Continue reading Preview: Twelfth Night by Young Vic
LONDON – Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre’s critically acclaimed production of To Kill A Mockingbird makes a welcome return for a UK tour in 2019, opening at Curve Leicester on 7th February! Based off Harper Lee’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name, To Kill A Mockingbird is set in the American Deep South, and explores themes of racial injustice when a black man is wrongfully accused of a crime he … Continue reading Preview: To Kill A Mockingbird At Curve Leicester
LONDON – The 1997 Edinburgh Fringe saw the premiere of Tall Stories’ first ever show, an adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s fairytales titled The Happy Prince and Other Stories. Now, 21 years later, the company has grown to become an international success, with hugely popular family friendly productions such as The Gruffalo and Room on the Broom to their name. It seems only appropriate that the company will be returning to … Continue reading Preview: Tall Stories Goes Wilde at The Edinburgh Festival Fringe
Torn down but not gone, the voices of Sungei Road live on in this piece of verbatim theatre. 10 July 2017. For most people, it was an ordinary day. But for the vendors of Sungei Road, that’s a date that marked the end of their lives as they knew it, the official day the historic Thieves’ Market was closed for good, and its inhabitants displaced … Continue reading Singapore Theatre Festival 2018: One Metre Square – Voices From Sungei Road (Review)
As much as we love the well-established, big players in the local theatre scene, each time we attend a play, we’re also thinking about some issues at the back of our heads: “is there a new generation of theatremakers to eventually inherit these legacies?” Thankfully, Singapore does have a smattering of young theatre companies and collectives, each finding their own way as they produce new … Continue reading An Interview with Bound Theatre Members Wee Xuan Yi and Teng Zi Ying
Simple but powerful staging of a modern classic that through death, teaches one how to live. 20 years on from when Mitch Albom’s internationally bestselling biographical novel Tuesdays with Morrie was first published, the lessons imparted by an old college professor to his former student remain fiercely relevant even today, still teaching readers everywhere how to live a good life from the wise words between its covers. Based … Continue reading Review: Tuesdays with Morrie 《最后14堂星期二的课》 by Godot Theatre Company
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