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 baby strangled by its own umbilical cord and absentmindedly tossed into a wastepaper basket, a cagey Mother Superior who becomes increasingly suspicious as secrets from the convent keep slipping out, and an atheist psychiatrist tasked … Continue reading Review: Agnes of God by Desert Wine Productions

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 theatre back to the hub of Singapore, with Agnes of God playing at the KC Arts Centre this week. Punning on the Latin phrase Agnus Dei (Lamb of God), Agnes of God was first written by American playwright John … Continue reading Preview: Agnes of God by Desert Wine Productions

SIFA 2018: TAHA by Amer Hlehel (Review)

Deceptively simple, Amer Hlehel puts the power of words onstage with a tour de force performance as the eponymous Palestinian poet.  How does one go through countless losses and still come out an optimist? In the eyes and life of Palestinian poet Taha Muhammad Ali (1931-2011), one will find that it is completely possible. Directed by Amir Nizar Zuabi, TAHA is a show with a simple set-up – writer … Continue reading SIFA 2018: TAHA by Amer Hlehel (Review)

SIFA 2018: TAHA by Amer Hlehel (Preview)

Born in a village in Galilee in 1931,Palestinian poet Taha Muhammad Ali has been through many things – he fled with his family to a refugee camp in Lebanon in 1948 before returning to Nazareth where he ran a souvenir shop and taught himself classical Arabic literature and learnt English. But through it all, he remained an unerring optimist, and in his works, celebrated the … Continue reading SIFA 2018: TAHA by Amer Hlehel (Preview)