[Preview] Huayi Festival 2017: Cloud Gate 2 – A Triple Bill
Cloud Gate 2 is the sister company of the renowned Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan, and will finally make their Singaporean debut at the 2017 Huayi Chinese Festival of the arts! Founded by Lin Hwai-min and the late Lo Man-fei, Cloud Gate 2 has quickly grown to become one of Taiwan’s foremost junior contemporary dance companies featuring some of the country’s most talented up … Continue reading [Preview] Huayi Festival 2017: Cloud Gate 2 – A Triple Bill
[Preview] VAULT Festival 2017: Previews 8-12 Feb (Part 2)
Following Part 1, here’s Part 2 of our selections for the VAULT Festival this week, with two plays about life in the city, and a play about a girl learning to cope with grief with the help of a special friend: Save + Quit by Sophia Leuner Coming in from a successful Edinburgh Fringe run and being bestowed the honour of being chosen as the … Continue reading [Preview] VAULT Festival 2017: Previews 8-12 Feb (Part 2)
[Preview] VAULT Festival 2017: Previews 8-12 Feb (Part 1)
Week 3 of the massive VAULT Festival comes with more theatre, more quirks and more fringe shows. Check out Part 1 of our selections for this week below! WRETCH by Interval Productions As we’ve seen in Happy, literally anything and everything has the potential to become a musical, including this one act play about life after homelessness. Multi-award nominated Interval Productions proudly presents writer Rebecca Walker’s … Continue reading [Preview] VAULT Festival 2017: Previews 8-12 Feb (Part 1)
Preview: The Necessary Stage 2017 Season
2017 will be a big year for The Necessary Stage – it’s their 30th Anniversary!Having humble beginnings starting off when a group of NUS undergraduates decided to form a new theatre group, TNS has since grown to become one of the leading theatre companies in Singapore, producing countless quality, original works every year. Founder and Artistic Director Alvin Tan and Resident Playwright Haresh Sharma continue … Continue reading Preview: The Necessary Stage 2017 Season
[Review] Huayi Festival 2017: Actor, Forty by The Necessary Stage
Actor, Forty is a meeting of strengths for award-winning actress Yeo Yann Yann and The Necessary Stage team. Having worked together many times in the past, Yeo reunites with TNS for a unique collaboration, returning to her lesser known roots as a thespian. Taking Yeo’s life and career as a starting point, resident playwright Haresh Sharma has crafted a monologue that sparkles with its linguistic diversity and … Continue reading [Review] Huayi Festival 2017: Actor, Forty by The Necessary Stage
[Review] VAULT Festival 2017: Haunted Houses and Fun Funerals (3 & 4/2/17)
We Are Brontë by Publick Transport It’s hard to pin down what exactly We Are Brontë is. Very loosely based off of the Brontë family’s life and times, Publick Transport utilises physical theatre and clever use of props to interpret the Gothic lifestyle, to hilarious results. If you’ve ever read a novel by one of the Brontës, or know anything about Gothic horror tropes, We Are Brontë will almost … Continue reading [Review] VAULT Festival 2017: Haunted Houses and Fun Funerals (3 & 4/2/17)
[Review] VAULT Festival 2017: One Man Shows About Love and Other Diseases (2/2/17)
Tonight at the VAULT Festival, we caught two one man shows: James Rowland’s romcom turned life lesson A Hundred Different Words For Love and Kane Power’s musical exploration of his mother’s bipolar disorder. Unlike many one man shows though, both manage to avoid veering into self-indulgence and created some shows that left serious food for thought. A Hundred Different Words For Love by James Rowland … Continue reading [Review] VAULT Festival 2017: One Man Shows About Love and Other Diseases (2/2/17)
Review: Perfect Liars Club
Four people tell a story. Three are true but one is a lie. Listen. Laugh. Interrogate. Vote. Can you spot the liar? If you watch the above video, you should be able to get a pretty decent idea of how the Perfect Liars Club works. Similar to the game where people introduce themselves with two truths and one lie, this part theatre part storytelling experience … Continue reading Review: Perfect Liars Club
Huayi Festival 2017: Actor, Forty by The Necessary Stage (Preview)
The Necessary Stage makes their foray into the Chinese theatre scene in this special commission for the annual Huayi Festival! Actor, Forty features Golden Horse Award-winning actress Yeo Yann Yann returning to the stage in a brand new monologue in collaboration TNS’ Alvin Tan and Haresh Sharma. Actor, Forty promises an honest, informal and conversational look at the way we take on various identities throughout our lives, similar … Continue reading Huayi Festival 2017: Actor, Forty by The Necessary Stage (Preview)
VAULT Festival 2017: Crocodiles and Chemsex (1/2/17)
The VAULT Festival continues with its second week, bringing us even more off kilter, fringe works. Today, we caught surreal family drama Crocodile where baby blues get more than a little out of hand, and Happy, a musical about chemsex, addiction and depression. Crocodile by Joyous Gard In the grand literary tradition of bizarre transformations from the likes of Ionesco’s Rhinoceros to Kafka’s Metamorphosis, Joyous Gard carries on that … Continue reading VAULT Festival 2017: Crocodiles and Chemsex (1/2/17)
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