Preview: Kalaa Utsavam – Indian Festival of Arts 2017 by Esplanade – Theatres on the Bay

Rounding off the year in cultural festivals is the Esplanade’s Kalaa Utsavam – Indian Festival of the Arts. Since its humble beginnings in 2002, the festival has grown to a sprawling 10 day event showcasing an exciting mix of classical and contemporary arts performances from local and international Indian artists. Starting on 17th November, the festival opens with an explosive tale told through bharatanatyam and Javanese dance … Continue reading Preview: Kalaa Utsavam – Indian Festival of Arts 2017 by Esplanade – Theatres on the Bay

Preview: Affordable Art Fair 2017 – Autumn Edition

The Affordable Art Fair is back this November! Taking place over a single weekend from 17th – 19th November, the world’s favourite art fair that won’t burn a hole in your pocket returns to the F1 Pit Building, showcasing an all new selection of works from up and coming local and international artists! This edition of the AAF will feature over 65 exhibitors from all over the world, as … Continue reading Preview: Affordable Art Fair 2017 – Autumn Edition

Preview: 28th Singapore International Film Festival – The Future Is

In the fully loaded arts calendar, there’s one festival we absolutely look forward to each year – The Singapore International Film Festival. Bringing in some never before seen films and an incredibly strong lineup of the most creative new movies today, there’s never a dull moment over the 11 day festival. The lineup for the 28th edition has finally been announced, and this year, features … Continue reading Preview: 28th Singapore International Film Festival – The Future Is

Review: Broken Vows dir. Bram Coppens

How wrong can a wedding go? Plenty, particularly when you’ve got an insane stalker hot on your heels, hell bent on ruining it. Broken Vows boasts an impressive cast, including Jaime Alexander, Wes Bentley and Cam Gigandet. We’ve seen these actors at their best in various other films, and one would expect them to flourish with the roles they’ve been saddled with in this film – … Continue reading Review: Broken Vows dir. Bram Coppens

Preview: Our Town by Intercultural Theatre Institute (+Interview with Director Kok Heng Leun)

Presented in collaboration with the Esplanade, the Intercultural Theatre Institute’s graduating cohort will be performing their newest show at the Esplanade Theatre Studio this November, following their previous production of Leakages. Directed by Drama Box Artistic Director and Arts NMP Kok Heng Leun, ITI presents American playwright Thornton Wilder’s Pulitzer Prize winning play – Our Town.  Written in 1938, Our Town is a metaphysical theatre piece and plays out like … Continue reading Preview: Our Town by Intercultural Theatre Institute (+Interview with Director Kok Heng Leun)

Review: The Black Eye Club by Phil Charles

“He’s one of the girls!” shouts Zoe (Rebecca Pryle) innocuously – except in this world of misconceptions and boundaries, he (Christopher Sherwood) legally isn’t. Himself a victim of domestic abuse, Dave turns up late at night at a refuge only to be told by its night concierge (Cathryn Sherman) that the rooms are strictly women-only. Dave is a gay man, and thus terribly fascinating to Zoe who … Continue reading Review: The Black Eye Club by Phil Charles

Review: Lemmings and The Wedding Pig by The Second Breakfast Company

Staging new scripts can be daunting, and even more so when these scripts mark their writers’ stage debuts. But in The Second Breakfast Company’s second outing, they’re going big and presenting an ambitious double bill of two completely new plays, both of which tackle mature topics beyond their young writers’ ages, and are promising starts should they choose to continue down this route in the future. The … Continue reading Review: Lemmings and The Wedding Pig by The Second Breakfast Company

Review: Sanctuary by The Necessary Stage and HANCHU-YUEI

There’s always something innately exciting about watching a collaborative devised work. Providing fertile ground for seeding new ideas and pushing collaborators beyond their creative comfort zones, there was plenty of hype surrounding The Necessary Stage’s latest collaboration, this time with young Japanese theatre company HANCHU-YUEI with their newest work: Sanctuary. Ending off their 30th Anniversary season with Sanctuary in many ways feels appropriate for TNS. The eponymous title … Continue reading Review: Sanctuary by The Necessary Stage and HANCHU-YUEI

Preview: The Black Eye Club by Phil Charles

LONDON – This November, the Bread and Roses Theatre presents the 2017 winner of the annual Bread & Roses Playwriting Award – Phil Charles’ stage debut The Black Eye Club. Charles himself is no stranger to writing, having written for TV series such as Shameless and Doctors, and the former homeless support worker and advertising copywriter was inspired to write the play after witnessing cuts to council budgets and the subsequent … Continue reading Preview: The Black Eye Club by Phil Charles

Preview: Boom by (aside) – Yale-NUS Repertory Theatre Company

This November, Yale-NUS’ Repertory Theatre Company (aside) presents an all new production of Jean Tay’s Boom. Written by economist-turned-playwright Tay, Boom was first performed in 2008 by the Singapore Repertory Theatre, where tt was nominated for Best Original Script for The Straits Times’ Life! Theatre Awards, Boom has since gone on to become an ‘O’- and ‘N’-Level Literature text in Singapore schools. Set in a surreal yet familiar version of Singapore, Boom takes … Continue reading Preview: Boom by (aside) – Yale-NUS Repertory Theatre Company