Get set for a sizzling summer that’s set to be hotter than ever with Parisian-inspired cabaret troupe The Black Cat Cabaret. Hailed as purveyors of the best of modern cabaret, The Black Cat cabaret have experimented and trained themselves in a myriad of forms for any audience – whether you want the most sacred of acts or a profane experience. The Black Cat Cabaret will be a … Continue reading Underbelly Festival 2017: The Black Cat Cabaret
Having made its debut at the Singapore International Festival of Arts in 2015, Drama Box is bringing back their participatory theatre piece The Lesson this July for 3 weeks! Drama Box is no stranger when it comes to using the arts to engage the public in discussions about the dynamics of space in land-scarce Singapore, and The Lesson continues riffing on similar themes. The show presents a scenario … Continue reading Preview: The Lesson by Drama Box
The Great Wall: One Woman’s Journey marks new company Glowtape Productions’ very first production in the local theatre scene, but its members are certainly no amateurs. Written by Life! Theatre Award winning playwright Jean Tay (Everything But The Brain, Boom), The Great Wall is a new musical inspired by the Chinese legend of Meng Jiang Nu, whose tears brought down the wall itself. We talked to the … Continue reading The Great Wall: An Interview with Stars Jeon Na-Young and Nathan Hartono
Mile-high mayhem may be looming on the horizon, but whichever Star Alliance member you end up flying with, be it Singapore Airlines, Air China or Air India, your ‘in-flight’ entertainment is guaranteed as W!ld Rice returns with a riotous fourth staging of a comedy classic. Boeing Boeing has always been one of W!ld Rice’s classic bestsellers. Ever since the company brought it here and Glen Goei … Continue reading Review: Boeing Boeing by W!ld Rice
What would you leave behind in your will to your children? If it’s your favourite car, then you’re all set for when Our Company Limited stages local playwright Verena Tay’s play The Car at the Esplanade Theatre Studio this July, commissioned by Esplanade – Theatres on the Bay for its Feed Your Imagination (F.Y.I) 2017 series for students. First staged in 2005 and walking away as … Continue reading Preview: The Car by Our Company
As we gear up for National Day coming in a few months, here’s a reminder that it’s not the only thing to be celebrating this August, as yet another national treasure will be making its way back to the stage – Presented by the Singapore Repertory Theatre, Forbidden City the Musical will be making a triumphant return to the Esplanade, starring Kit Chan in the lead role … Continue reading Forbidden City 2017: An Interview with Sebastian Tan and Benjamin Chow
Checkpoint Theatre will be premiering Lucas Ho’s new play FRAGO this July! FRAGO follows the lives of a group of NSmen as they return to camp for a war game exercise during reservist. In the long waiting periods in between, these NSmen will explore what it means to grow up, as they think about their relationships, jobs, babies and aging parents as they figure out just how to be … Continue reading An Exclusive Interview With FRAGO’s Jo Tan and Adib Kosnan
Zou Zhao is an artist working between New York and Singapore, specializing in performance and video art. Her works explore issues of language, ideology, subjectivity and translation through the materiality of voice. In this lecture-performance, Zou will not be focusing on the power of voice and speech. Instead, the Chinese artist will be speaking about quite the opposite: listening. Zou will be examining the death … Continue reading The O.P.E.N. 2017: On The Threshold of Listening by Zou Zhao
RAW Moves has never shied away from the extreme and experimental, having just concluded their run of their original 3-hour durational piece If I could set with the sun earlier this month. Now, continuing their season’s theme of Clutter, RAW Moves presents RawGround – a platform for members of RAW Moves to showcase highly conceptual works to the public, some of which may even eventually continue development … Continue reading Preview: RAWGround – Clutter by RAW Moves
Dubai-based Chinese artist Lantian Xie works with multiple disciplines, from taxidermy to found art to create images, objects and stories. In his lecture at the O.P.E.N., Xie will speak about the Arab Gulf, and touch on themes of precarity, mortality and its temporal nature. With his multimedia style, Xie will utilise fiction, song, essay and film to shape an itinerary for places where there is … Continue reading The O.P.E.N. 2017: Sultan Ibrahim by Lantian Xie
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