Review: First Fleet (第一舰队) by Nine Years Theatre and Singapore Chinese Cultural Centre
Steering audiences to believe in the redemptive power of art. Written and directed by Nelson Chia, First Fleet marks a bold move for the Nine Years Theatre artistic director, clearly differentiating them from […]
Nine Years Theatre’s First Fleet (第一舰队): An Interview with Director Nelson Chia
Following FAUST/US earlier this year, Nine Years Theatre returns this week for their second production of the year – an original work about the first British fleet to step foot onto […]
Preview: First Fleet (第一舰队) by Nine Years Theatre
Nine Years Theatre (NYT) is back for their second production of the year with the all new First Fleet. Written by NYT Artistic Director Nelson Chia, First Fleet draws inspiration from Thomas Keneally’s […]
Review: FAUST/US (浮世/德) by Nine Years Theatre
Lest the demons get to me. Written by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe in the early 1800s, there is a timelessness to the narrative and themes discussed in Faust that have led […]
Dealing with the Devil: An Interview with Performer Mia Chee and Director Cherilyn Woo of Nine Years Theatre’s FAUST/US (浮世/德)
This March, Nine Years Theatre (NYT) opens their 2019 season with what is now their signature style of adapting a Western text into Mandarin, this time around having selected Goethe’s Faustus, the […]
Preview: FAUST/US (浮世/德) by Nine Years Theatre
“I often feel like there are two souls living in me. One with an overwhelming zest with love for life, desperately clinging onto the world and all its wonders, the […]
Review: Guards at the Taj by Singapore Repertory Theatre
Harrowing tale of male friendship torn asunder by contrasting beliefs; a must-watch. American playwright Rajiv Joseph is a modern master of the two-man play. Across some of his other works […]
Nine Years Theatre’s Lear Is Dead 李尔亡: An Interview with Nelson Chia and Timothy Wan
There is more than a passing similarity to Shakespeare’s King Lear and a certain recently deceased leader from our very own country. Besides being former heads of a nation and […]
Preview: Lear Is Dead (李尔亡) by Nine Years Theatre
“We used to think power is our life’s goal, forgetting that wisdom is what our lives are founded upon.” Following their reimagination of Strindberg’s Miss Julie earlier this year, Nine Years […]
Review: The Fall by The Young Company
A number of potential stars emerge from the latest batch of SRT’s The Young Company. First performed by the National Youth Theatre of Great Britain in 2016, the Singapore Repertory Theatre’s […]
Review: Melbourne International Comedy Festival Roadshow 2018
The Melbourne International Comedy Festival Roadshow is always welcome back to Singapore shores year on year. Bringing back the very best of Australia’s up and coming comedians, attending a show […]
Preview: Melbourne International Comedy Festival Roadshow 2018
The Melbourne International Comedy Festival Roadshow, Australia’s biggest comedy festival, has become somewhat of a mainstay after making its way down here year after year. Returning once again this week […]
Preview: The Fall by The Young Company
Following two years of training across all forms and aspect of theatre, Singapore Repertory Theatre’s (SRT) latest batch of The Young Company trainees are set to graduate this August, culminating […]
Review: Agnes of God by Desert Wine Productions
A likeable enough religious mystery/thriller on a budget. Agnes of God is a production whose script pulls out all the stops for shock – an amnesiac novice nun found with her […]
Preview: Agnes of God by Desert Wine Productions
Following productions of Stella Kon’s Emily of Emerald Hill in 2016 and Donald Margulies’ Dinner with Friends in 2017 in ‘off central’ locations such as Goodman Arts Centre and The Grassroots’ Club. Now, they’re bringing […]
Review: Pissed Julie (茱莉小解) by Nine Years Theatre
Strindberg’s classic is re-appropriated to complicate issues of identity and the mutability of class in this new adaptation. In watching Nelson Chia’s adaptation of August Strindberg’s Miss Julie, there’s a scene from late […]
