ITI Launches Möbius Fund – The First Revolving Loan Fund For Actor Students
The Intercultural Theatre Institute (ITI) has just launched an all new loan fund for actor students! The Möbius Fund is a revolving loan fund that awards ITI students in need of financial aid with an interest-free loan that will cover up to 100% of their course fees. Much like its name, the Möbius fund is cyclical in nature, where upon graduation, beneficiaries will begin paying … Continue reading ITI Launches Möbius Fund – The First Revolving Loan Fund For Actor Students
Preview: The Spirits Play by The Finger Players
The Finger Players bring back local theatre legend Kuo Pao Kun’s undying classic The Spirits Play this October as part of their Contemporary Classics season. The Spirits Play follows five Japanese spirits as they attempt to recollect and organize their jumbled memories from their life living and dying in the Second World War. As they slowly recall the atrocities and horrors of war, they become increasingly troubled and shocked by … Continue reading Preview: The Spirits Play by The Finger Players
Preview: Poop! by The Finger Players
“When is life worth living; when is death worth celebrating?” Last staged in 2010, The Finger Players are bringing back Chong Tze Chien’s Poop! as part of their Contemporary Classics season. With a cute title like Poop!, the last thing you’d expect from this play is an incredibly moving reflection and depiction of death and bereavement, as a father commits suicide, his wife grieves, their daughter wonders and his mother laughs. … Continue reading Preview: Poop! by The Finger Players
Preview: On Display – A Musical Cabaret
Musical theatre fans, you’re in luck this September, as performers Matheus Ting and Valerie Choo produce and star in an all new, one day only musical theatre revue! The LaSalle musical theatre graduates have come a long way since appearing on the local theatre and tv scene, and it’s always heartening to see young up and coming local talent strike it out on their own … Continue reading Preview: On Display – A Musical Cabaret
Review: Blank Run by The Theatre Practice
How can one bear to remember a traumatic memory, much less re-create it? Directed by Kuo Jian Hong, Blank Run is The Theatre Practice’s attempt at doing just that, and uses the memory of a sexual assault as their starting point for their exploration of the deep imprint it leaves on its victims. At the centre of Blank Run is performer Gloria Ang, who also came up with the … Continue reading Review: Blank Run by The Theatre Practice
SIFA 2017: Inspiration for the Soul (Open Homes Week 3 Review)
It’s the final weekend of Open Homes, and this time around, we stuck around in familiar territory in the East. Today, the homes we visited were inhabited each by an incredibly strong, determined woman: Wendy Wand in her home at Frankel in the afternoon and Anthea Ong’s ‘Bliss Loft’ in Marine Crescent. Both of their performances happened to touch on their stories of divorce, and how they’ve … Continue reading SIFA 2017: Inspiration for the Soul (Open Homes Week 3 Review)
Review: RYDE dir. Brian Visciglia
One of the strangest things about the 21st century is how comfortable we are simply calling for a ride in a stranger’s car through apps like Uber. After all, our parents always told us never to talk to strangers, let alone get into their cars. Which is why Ryde has such an interesting, believable premise for a horror/thriller film. What if your driver turned out to be … Continue reading Review: RYDE dir. Brian Visciglia
Preview: Singapore Night Festival 2017 (Part 1)
The annual Singapore Night Festival turns TEN this August and with it comes an all new edition that’s bigger and better than ever! Whether you’re completely new to Singapore’s biggest outdoor performing arts festival, or have already forged countless magical memories over the past decade, expect to be dazzled and delighted by the many installations and performance art all around the Bras Basah.Bugis precinct this … Continue reading Preview: Singapore Night Festival 2017 (Part 1)
SIFA 2017: Art Studio by Nine Years Theatre (Review)
Based off Yeng Pway Ngon’s 2012 Singapore Literature Prize-winning novel of the same name, Nine Years Theatre once again has a real winner on their hands with their theatrical adaptation of Art Studio, undoubtedly one of the biggest, most anticipated new works this year. Following the myriad lives of a group of artists over the course of fifty years, Art Studio is a sprawling, epic piece that takes … Continue reading SIFA 2017: Art Studio by Nine Years Theatre (Review)
SIFA 2017: Becoming Graphic by Sonny Liew and Edith Podesta (Review)
Sonny Liew initially seems like an odd choice to put onstage as part of an international arts festival. After all, the 42-year old Eisner Award winning comic artist has close to no experience in theatre. But if there’s anyone who can be counted on to bring out the drama of comics and adapt it for the stage, it’s his collaborator and Life! Theatre Award winning … Continue reading SIFA 2017: Becoming Graphic by Sonny Liew and Edith Podesta (Review)
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