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London, Preview, Singapore

Television Time: BBC Shows – July 2021

Crime and thriller are in session on BBC First, as McDonald & Dodds returns with its second season, where the unlikely duo – played by Tala Gouveia and BAFTA award-winning actor Jason Watkins – continue to encounter grisly crimes in across three films. Four-part series Roadkill also premieres this month starring Hugh Laurie as Peter Laurence, a Conservative politician whose life has been ladened with scandals, impacting his personal … Continue reading Television Time: BBC Shows – July 2021

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Arts, Preview, Theatre

Preview: The Mother by Pangdemonium!

Motherhood has never been an easy path to take. From carrying a child for nine months, the pain of actual childbirth, to a mother’s duties to her husband and children, it’s practically enough to make one woman go mad. Following their staging of The Father (2018) and The Son (2020), Pangdemonium is set to complete Florian Zeller’s ‘family’ trilogy with The Mother this August. Translated … Continue reading Preview: The Mother by Pangdemonium!

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Arts, Comedy, malaysia, Preview, Theatre

Preview: George Town Festival 2021

GEORGE TOWN, PENANG – Even with the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, Penang’s annual George Town Festival has announced that the Festival is set to continue as scheduled, with a slew of online programmes from 10th to 18th July 2021. Physical events are tentatively postponed until further notice, due to the government’s announcement of a total nationwide lockdown, to prevent the spread of COVID-19. The postponement of … Continue reading Preview: George Town Festival 2021

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Arts, online, Preview, Singapore, Theatre

Preview: Festival of Women, N.O.W. 2021 by T:>works

From 13 to 31 July, T:>Works will power on with the final iteration of Festival of Women, N.O.W. (not ordinary work) as a completely digital experience for the second time. Helmed by theatre artist Noorlinah Mohamed, the 2021 edition will consolidate various digital platforms to engage new and existing audiences, a strategy that has proven successful in its first all-virtual edition1 in 2020. With 15 … Continue reading Preview: Festival of Women, N.O.W. 2021 by T:>works

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Preview: Faghag (2021) by Wild Rice

Pink Dot 2021 may be over, but being a faghag is an all-year affair. And for Pam Oei, dubbed ‘Singapore’s #1 Faghag’, she’s letting her rainbow flag fly high and declaring her love for the gays loud and proud for the whole of July, as Wild Rice’s Faghag returns to theatres from 1st July. After first premiering at the 2018 Singapore Theatre Festival, Pam Oei’s … Continue reading Preview: Faghag (2021) by Wild Rice

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Museums, Preview

Museum Musings: Modern Women of The Republic – Fashion and Change in China and Singapore

From 12th June to 12th December 2021, Sun Yat Sen Memorial Hall (SYSNMH) will be presenting its latest special exhibition, Modern Women of the Republic: Fashion and Change in China and Singapore, which uses fashion as a barometer of societal change to shed light on the changes in women’s status, roles and lifestyles since the late 19th century. The exhibition will display close to 100 … Continue reading Museum Musings: Modern Women of The Republic – Fashion and Change in China and Singapore

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Preview: Dancing with Fish in the Midnight Zone by ARTivate

The third graduating batch of ARTivate, the youth wing of local socially-engaged theatre group Drama Box, is tackling the difficult subject of grief and healing with their graduation performance.  Under the mentorship of Drama Box’s co-artistic director Kok Heng Leun and resident artist Chng Yi Kai, besides training in areas such as body movement and forum theatre, these young theatre practitioners-to-be have also been taught … Continue reading Preview: Dancing with Fish in the Midnight Zone by ARTivate

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Review: The Bride Always Knocks Twice – Killer Secrets by The Theatre Practice

Justice always catches up. In James M. Cain’s hard-boiled novel The Postman Always Rings Twice, the title acts as a metaphor for how perpetrators will eventually answer the call to justice. With a title like The Bride Always Knocks Twice – Killer Secrets, The Theatre Practice’s (Practice) latest production similarly deals with issues of justice, where all truth eventually comes to light, no matter how … Continue reading Review: The Bride Always Knocks Twice – Killer Secrets by The Theatre Practice

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Arts, Preview, Singapore

Preview: Storyfest 2021

As 2020 has shown, even a pandemic can’t keep a good storyteller down. Now in its 5th edition, StoryFest returns this year once again as a virtual festival, with a series of evocative talks and performances hosted across Zoom, VOD and the StoryFest YouTube channel. Co-presented by The Storytelling Centre Limited and The Arts House, the festival will take place across three weeks from 20th … Continue reading Preview: Storyfest 2021

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Preview: The Remembering Resource (II) by Grain Performance and Research Lab

Photo credits (A Memory Search, 1993): Koh Nguang How/Ho Keen Fi More than 25 years ago, Ang Gey Pin, a veteran theatre director and actress, together with the other members of the now-defunct Theatre OX (1995-2007), journeyed to live in an abandoned zen centre in Pulau Ubin for rigorous work on the craft of performance. As one of the first ensemble-based theatre groups in Singapore, … Continue reading Preview: The Remembering Resource (II) by Grain Performance and Research Lab

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