RWS and Savour have spared no expense in setting up for The Great Food Festival: a ballroom in the basement level of the RWS Conventions Centre, for example, has been taken over as the location for Rollin’ Sweet Times, where over 300 different desserts are available for the tasting from the throngs of hungry guests. At the official opening on Thursday, remarks were made by … Continue reading Review: The Great Food Festival 2017
In yet another monumental year for Pangdemonium, their 2017 season rounds off with the Singaporean debut of award winning musical Fun Home! Adapted from graphic novelist Alison Bechdel’s (Dykes to Watch Out For) best selling memoir of the same name, Fun Home tells the story of Bechdel’s life growing up in a uniquely dysfunctional family, in the titular ‘fun home’ (short for funeral home). Fun Home will grip you with … Continue reading Preview: Fun Home by Pangdemonium
60 years is a long time for a musical to still go strong, but there’s a timeless charm to West Side Story that keep audiences coming back each and every time for another dose of Tony and Maria’s epic love story. Inspired by Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, West Side Story shifts the setting to the Upper West Side of New York City, where two rival immigrant … Continue reading Review: West Side Story by BASE Entertainment Asia
Resorts World Sentosa has joined forces with culinary event masters Savour to present the inaugural Great Food Festival! Held around Resorts World Sentosa, the Great Food Festival will be open for just four days in September and bring together the very best chefs and dessert experts from all over the world in just one location. At a media preview held on Monday, we got a … Continue reading The Great Food Festival 2017: A Sneak Preview
West Side Story opened last night to resounding applause, and we can’t wait to catch it tonight! We’ll of course be letting you guys know what we thought of it in our review (stay tuned for that), but before the big night, we got a chance to meet the cast and catch a preview of some snippets of tonight’s gala performance at a media call … Continue reading Meeting the Cast of West Side Story!
Taylor Swift isn’t the only snake to make the headlines this year. After the stellar success of Monkey Goes West, W!ld Rice continues to mine the neverending vault of Chinese legends for inspiration for their 2017 Christmas pantomime: Mama White Snake! Based off the classic Chinese folk tale of Madam White Snake, Mama White Snake follows the young Meng (Andrew Marko) as he grows up sheltered by his … Continue reading Preview: Mama White Snake by W!ld Rice
“Before my son I stand, holding the knife used to kill my father” Ever imagined a Yeats’ writing adapted for opera? This October, sit tight and get ready for a bone-chilling immersive operatic experience from L’arietta Productions as they bring you Purgatory, produced as an in-conjunction event with the Singapore Writers Festival as they celebrate Ireland together. Written in 1966 by British composer Gordon Crosse, the opera utilizes … Continue reading Preview: Purgatory by L’arietta Productions
As part of their Contemporary/Classics series for their 2017 Main Season, the Finger Players are bringing back Chong Tze Chien’s Poop! this October! Last staged in 2010, this restaging will feature all of the original cast and production team. Masters of applying puppetry in the most ingenuous and creative of ways, Poop! is a heartbreaking, dark fairytale about dealing with grief…but as seen through a child’s eyes. We managed to … Continue reading Poop!: An Interview with Director/Playwright Chong Tze Chien and Actress Janice Koh
What is our everyday? This is the overarching question posed in the second iteration of interdisciplinary collaborators Ebelle Chong, Neo Hong Chin and Pat Toh’s 慢慢走 – Walk Slowly. As part of RAW Moves’ Run Another Way programme, Walk Slowly is an experiment in movement that reflects upon the rhythms and motions of everyday life. Walk Slowly takes advantage of the accessibility of the domestic, creating whole swaths of expression by … Continue reading Preview: 慢慢走 – Walk Slowly by RAW Moves
Based on Fyodor Dostoevsky’s classic novel Crime and Punishment, David Gaitan’s Leakage(s) and Anticoagulants is a biting psychological exploration on rational egotism and morality. A young intellectual, Raskolnikov (Tan Weiying), steals from and murders an unscrupulous old pawnbroker and due to a series of coincidences, manages to escape undetected. To Raskolnikov, this crime is motivated not by anything quite as plebeian as greed or desperation, … Continue reading Review: Leakage(s) and Anticoagulants by ITI
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