


Preview: PANCHA – Flowers Don’t Bloom All The Time by Maya Dance Theatre
Local dance company Maya Dance Theatre returns this August with the third instalment of their successful PANCHA programme. Started in 2016, PANCHA literally translates to ‘five’, and the dance series […]

Review: My Grandfather’s Road by Neo Kim Seng (Cantonese versions, performed by Tan Cher Kian and Gary Tang)
Two ways to tell a poignant story of growing up in Cantonese. First written as a book, in My Grandfather’s Road, Neo Kim Seng explores his familial history through the lens and […]

Review: My Grandfather’s Road by Neo Kim Seng (English version, performed by Karen Tan)
Put on your nostalgia goggles for this monologue about people and places past, laced with a pinch of death and loss. To call a stretch of land your grandfather’s road […]

Review: Fourteen by SPLIT Theatrical Productions
An absurd look at the perils of being a teenager today. Adolescence can be a trying time. Fourteen director Darryl Lim knows best – he’s an educator, and faces teenagers on a […]

An Interview with the Cast and Creatives of My Grandfather’s Road
“Eh, you think this one your grandfather’s road ah?” Is a common retort to careless drivers or pedestrians acting as if they own the roads. But in the case of […]

Review: Traditionally Speaking by Bhumi Collective
Get schooled with Bhumi Collective’s very first lecture-performance about traditional cultural dance forms. In Bhumi Collective’s latest production, they’re breaking new ground as they deviate from plays to explore the […]

Preview: Traditionally Speaking by Bhumi Collective
Bhumi Collective strides into 2018 with an all new series of works, utilising the performance-lecture medium to deliver a series of performances aimed at colliding research, process and performance. For the very first […]

M1 Singapore Fringe Festival 2018: An Interview with Rei Poh (Attempts: Singapore)
Rei Poh is a geek who likes video games. And being the innovative theatremaker he is, it makes complete sense that he’d apply it to his work as well. We […]

M1 Fringe Festival 2018: Hayat by Pink Gajah Theatre (Review)
The transformative power of pain is on full display in a moving work from Pink Gajah. Hayat may be a word that means life, but in Pink Gajah’s newest work of […]

A Tale of Two Cities: Open Waters by Tan Shou Chen and Jaturachai Srichanwanpen
It has to be said that of the many potential cross-country collaborations out there, Singapore doesn’t often feature many Thai ones. So when Singaporean theatremaker Tan Shou Chen met Thai […]

M1 Singapore Fringe Festival 2018: Reflecting on Life with Pink Gajah’s Hayat (Preview)
“Pink Gajah is a company where everyone becomes family,” Sharda Harrison, Artistic Director of Pink Gajah Theatre muses, while sipping on her drink. “I’m quite picky about the people I […]

M1SFF 2018 Previews Part 3: Questioning Perfection and the Patriarchal Gaze
In the final part of our previews for the 2018 M1 Singapore Fringe Fest, we look at four works that tackle the complexities of the female form and the emphasis […]

M1SFF 2018 Previews Part 1: Battling Societal Influences and Pressures
The annual M1 Singapore Fringe Festival kicks off this year with an all new theme, as artistic director Sean Tobin takes it in a new direction – celebrating some of […]

Review: Lemmings and The Wedding Pig by The Second Breakfast Company
Staging new scripts can be daunting, and even more so when these scripts mark their writers’ stage debuts. But in The Second Breakfast Company’s second outing, they’re going big and […]

Preview: Lemmings and The Wedding Pig by The Second Breakfast Company
The Second Breakfast Company (2BCo) made a splash with their debut, sold out production last year of Leow Puay Tin’s Family, and the young, up and coming theatre company seems to […]

Review: Who’s Next Door? by Tapestry Playback Theatre (presented by Singapore Kindness Movement)
This week, in an effort to encourage increased interaction between neighbours in the hope of a better neighbourhood and society, The Singapore Kindness Movement presents Who’s Next Door? – a playback theatre […]