Review: Kebaya Homies by The Necessary Stage (M1 Singapore Fringe Festival 2020)
★★★★☆ (Performance attended 15/1/19) Irreverent trip down TNS’ past works featuring two of their best collaborators. The Necessary Stage’s (TNS) most well-known works aren’t always something you’d readily call ‘fun’, […]
Review: The Utama Spaceship by Spacebar Theatre (M1 Singapore Fringe Festival 2020)
★★★☆☆ (Performance attended 14/1/19) Likeable performance about the making of legends gets a little lost in space. As a fiercely competitive nation, Singapore has shown time and time again that […]
Review: ATARA – For you, who has not yet found the one by Reut Shemesh (M1 Singapore Fringe Festival 2020)
★★★☆☆ (Performance attended 14/1/19) Finding the means to be who you are in a society that suppresses one’s identity. With some of her closest family members converting to Orthodox Hasidic Judaism […]
M1 Singapore Fringe Festival 2020: An Interview with Soultari Amin Farid and Grace Lee-Khoo (Mak-Mak Menari)
Who exactly are the Mak-Mak Menari and why should we care about Bhumi Collective’s latest show of the same name? In short, the 23-member group of veteran Malay dancers have […]
M1 Singapore Fringe Festival 2020: An Interview with Square One Collective (No Place)
In the not so distant future of 2075, the world is at its end. Three people – a political exile, a former radical and a climate refugee go in search […]
M1 Singapore Fringe Festival 2020: An Interview with Reut Shemesh (ATARA – For you, who has not yet found the one)
Female, Jewish and an Israeli living in Germany, Reut Shemesh’s background is certainly one that offers up a myriad of perspectives by which to see the world. At the 2020 […]
M1 Singapore Fringe Festival 2020: An Interview with Spacebar Theatre (The Utama Spaceship)
If there’s one thing Singapore theatre seems to lack, it’s more companies willing to go down the irreverent route, having fun with their craft and taking theatre to its extremes. […]
Review: The Shadow Curriculum by Jelaine Ng (M1 Singapore Fringe Festival 2020)
★☆☆☆☆ (Performance attended 11/1/20, 2pm) Attempt to satirise motivational speakers unclear in its motives and falls flat. In Singapore’s results-oriented society, success is everything. So it comes as no surprise […]
Review: Beside Ourselves by .gif (M1 Singapore Fringe Festival 2020)
★★☆☆☆ (Performance attended 10/1/20) Great songs from .gif stitched together with a premature theatre production unable to fully capture the theme of displacement with its form. While primarily known as […]
Review: Secretive Thing 215 by Secretive Thing (M1 Singapore Fringe Festival 2020)
★★★★☆ (Performance attended 9/1/20) Intricate, introspective experience with only our phones and a mysterious communicator. Going in to a performance of a secretive nature, knowing absolutely nothing about what to […]
Review: Contemplating Kopitiam and Kampong Wa’Hassan by Oliver Chong and NAFA (M1 Singapore Fringe Festival 2020)
★★★☆☆ (Performance attended 9/1/20) Alfian Sa’at meets Kuo Pao Kun meets the Millennials in this well-directed but conceptually disjointed reflection on belonging and identity. There’s something incredibly audacious about splicing […]
Review: A Tiny Country by ATTEMPTS (M1 Singapore Fringe Festival 2020)
★★★☆☆ (Performance attended 8/1/20) Gamification of a hypothetical nation’s destiny has the right idea in mind. While ATTEMPTS’ founder Rei Poh has always been interested in games, with their latest […]
Review: Café Sarajevo by bluemouth inc. (M1 Singapore Fringe Festival 2020)
★★★★☆ (Performance attended 8/1/20) Docu-drama in the form of a live podcast reminds us how difficult it is to mend deep-set rifts, and the politicised effects these have on the […]
M1 Singapore Fringe Festival 2020: An Interview with Jelaine Ng and Jeramy Lim (The Shadow Curriculum)
If you grew up in Singapore, then you’d probably know that of all the currencies viewed as most important to getting ahead in life, the most valuable one is education. […]
M1 Singapore Fringe Festival 2020: An Interview with .gif (Beside Ourselves)
It’s becoming increasingly common these days to feel a sense of displacement amidst our fast-changing world. Life itself often feels surreal, with the sheer amount of tragedy highlighted in the […]
M1 Singapore Fringe Festival 2020: An Interview with Oliver Chong (Contemplating Kopitiam and Kampong Wa’Hassan)
How closely tied is heritage to place? Local playwrights Kuo Pao Kun and Alfian Sa’at explored this concept of space and identity in their works Kopitiam and Anak Bulan di Kampong Wa’ Hassan respectively, wondering […]
