In 2012, Michael Chiang’s Army Daze celebrated its 25th anniversary with a new production directed by Beatrice Chia-Richmond which received a sold-out run. Five years on, Chiang has decided that it’s time to update the now thirty year old script by writing an all new sequel: Army Daze 2. Premiering in August 2017, the all-new play tracks down our original teenage heroes from Hotel Company Platoon 4 … Continue reading Preview: Army Daze 2
2017 is a year of great fear and trepidation. Surrounded by an uncertain political climate tending towards conservatism, it’s easy to make the claim that nothing is sacred anymore, and immediately attack institutions undergoing great change. In conservative Singapore, homosexuality still doesn’t sit well with a good number of citizens, with controversy arising from even family friendly films such as Beauty and the Beast, resulting in … Continue reading Review: TANGO by Pangdemonium
For the first time since their inception, Pangdemonium! will be presenting an original play – TANGO by acclaimed local playwright Joel Tan! Receiving its world premiere in May, TANGO was inspired by true events from the blog “4 Relative Strangers” by James Williams, the pseudonym for the real Koh-Waites who outraged a Chinese restaurant in Singapore who couldn’t accept their presence as the adopted parents of two sons. … Continue reading Preview: TANGO by Pangdemonium!
First written by Chinese theatre doyen Kuo Pao Kun as a play, Lao Jiu has since seen 2 more revivals in 2005 and 2012, reincarnated as a showstopping musical. This time around, The Theatre Practice returns with a new staging of the hit show, and boy were we glad we managed to catch it. Lao Jiu (Sugie Phua), literally “the ninth child”, is the first and only … Continue reading Review: Laojiu The Musical by The Theatre Practice
Over the last 30 years, The Necessary Stage has established itself as one of the foremost Singaporean theatre companies, producing seminal works that send across a strong social message, thanks to the work of Alvin Tan and Haresh Sharma. Of their productions, Those Who Can’t, Teach stands out as one of their classics. Originally staged in 1990 before receiving a restaging in 2010, Those Who Can’t, Teach celebrates … Continue reading Review: Those Who Can’t, Teach by The Necessary Stage
Toy Factory starts off the year with the big budget production of Prism. Tackling issues of gentrification, progress and history, Prism is a monster of a play with a big message to tell. Prism bears many similar themes to plays like Jean Tay’s Boom, offering commentary on our endless, inevitable march of progress and refusing to stop even for a moment to consider what’s lost in the progress, as … Continue reading Review: Prism by Toy Factory
The Necessary Stage celebrates its 30th anniversary with a restaging of one their best-loved plays: Those Who Can’t, Teach! First staged in 1990 and later on in 2010 to full houses, Those Who Can’t, Teach is a modern Singaporean theatre classic by TNS artistic director Alvin Tan and resident playwright Haresh Sharma. TWCT touches on an issue every Singaporean is familiar with: education. Set in a … Continue reading Preview: Those Who Can’t Teach by The Necessary Stage
Toy Factory starts off their 2017 season with a bang: a restaging of their speculative play Prism, which received rave reviews when it first premiered in the early 2000s. Prism features Apprentice star Firdaus Rahman as Aman, an Urban Redevelopment Board official tasked with evicting 33000 residents of “The Surrounding City”, the city’s oldest heritage as it faces demolition in the name of progress. Confronted with angry, despairing citizens, Aman … Continue reading Preview: Prism by Toy Factory
If you’re a person of Chinese origin, chances are you grew up having watched at least one version of Journey To The West on television. Now, W!ld Rice is here to break those language barriers with its annual Christmas pantomime, and they’ve brought back the sellout Monkey Goes West for the second year in a row, and the bold move certainly paid off. Alfian Sa’at takes the classic Chinese … Continue reading Review: Monkey Goes West by W!ld Rice
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