After delays due to the COVID-19 pandemic, new company Pachyderm Theatre are finally ready to present their production of Queers this December. Playing at the Projector from 3rd to 5th December, as its title suggests, the theatre piece is all about LGBTQ people, and charts their lived experience over the last 100 years. Commissioned to mark the 50th anniversary of the ‘Wolfenden Report’ of 1957, … Continue reading Preview: Queers by Pachyderm Theatre
Learning what it truly means to stay strong in the face of death. For years now, Drama Box and ArtsWok Collaborative’s Both Sides, Now community programme has been present to reach out to the public, engaging them through the arts as a means of starting a conversation about what it means to live well, and leave well. But with the COVID-19 pandemic, a typical Both … Continue reading Review: Both Sides, Now – Kata-Kata Kita Variety Show by Drama Box and ArtsWok Collaborative
Commemorating 30 years of bringing arts and culture closer to Singaporeans, the National Arts Council (NAC) is bringing Arts in Your Neighbourhood (AYN) to several towns this November. Unlike previous editions, which have only focused on a single neighbourhood, this edition of AYN will cast the spotlight on five neighbourhoods and more including Bukit Merah, Jurong, Marine Parade, Serangoon and Tampines, each with their distinct … Continue reading Preview: Arts In Your Neighbourhood – November 2021 edition
The existential crisis of the loss of motherhood excruciatingly performed onstage. The COVID-19 pandemic has left most of us mentally exhausted and burnt out, uncertain when we will ever reclaim a sense of normalcy ever again. In many ways, Pangdemonium’s staging of The Mother encapsulates that same feeling of despondence, in its portrayal of a mother struggling to let go of her maternal role, and … Continue reading ★★★★☆ Review: The Mother by Pangdemonium
Following the performance meets workshop production RevoLOOtion, along with a series of original solo works in September, in their final show of the year, the Intercultural Theatre Institute (ITI) graduating cohort is set to perform Dario Fo’s Accidental Death of an Anarchist at the Esplanade Theatre Studio this November. Directed by veteran director Aarne Neeme, Accidental Death of an Anarchist is a play that explores … Continue reading Preview: Accidental Death of an Anarchist by Intercultural Theatre Institute
Skimming the surface of the quest for queer identity in Singapore. Being queer has never been easy on our conservative, sunny island. Not only does does one have to face the disapproval of the general public and fear of coming out, but the road towards sexual awakening is often a bumpy one, with fleeting sexual encounters taking place with strangers under cover of darkness, or … Continue reading ★★★☆☆ Review: The Swimming Pool Library by T:>works
Time heals everything. In many ways, With Time is the culmination of Drama Box resident artist Chng Yi Kai’s work over the last year or so, with his experience in researching mental health, to facilitating interactive, forum-style theatre. The succinct 60 minute or so production deals with one of the most pressing matters today – mental health, and uses verbatim theatre as a means to … Continue reading ★★★☆☆ Review: With Time by Drama Box
As one of the most renowned and beloved pieces of French literature, it was only a matter of time before Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s The Little Prince would take centrestage at the annual voiLah! France Singapore Festival. This year, with the 75th anniversary of the text’s publication, the festival opens in November with a brand new interpretation of the text, as music and theatre come together … Continue reading vOilah! 2021: The Little Prince – A Musical Journey by Double Confirm Productions & Sight Lines Entertainment
Playing as part of the 2021 voiLah! France Singapore Festival, Wisdom of Monkeys Productions presents Ahmad Castaignede’s play Love Etc. this November, at the Goodman Arts Centre Black Box. Directed by Hemang Yadev, Love Etc. features a colourful cast of characters living in Singapore. There’s Laurent, an aspiring French playwright living in Singapore, who is developing an auto fictional play about love in the Lion … Continue reading vOilah! 2021: Love Etc. by Wisdom of Monkeys Productions
Change is never easy, especially when forced. Sure, change is possible, but whether people should change for the sake of conforming is a whole other matter altogether. Luckily, local theatre company The Necessary Stage is here to tackle that issue head on, with a restaging of their play ______ Can Change at the Esplanade Recital Studio this November. Comprising of three playlets – the cheekily … Continue reading Can We Change?: An Interview with Alvin Tan and Haresh Sharma on restaging ‘________ Can Change’
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