Dwayne Lau is the kind of guy who’s all smiles the moment you first meet him. “I’ve been very blessed to have been brought up in a very loving family who’ve given me so much. I never lacked anything, and I think because of that, I became a very generous person, be it with my time or my love, and I just wanted to pay … Continue reading Lunch With Dwayne Lau: A Prelude to A Date With Dwayne 2018
A change of perspective could widen your peripheries in this oneiric projection-performance from one of Thailand’s most acclaimed filmmakers. Apichatpong Weerasethakul is one of Thailand’s most internationally acclaimed filmmakers, having been the first Southeast Asian artist to nab the Palme d’Or at the 2010 Cannes Festival. If anything though, Apichatpong is an artist first, filmmaker second, never shying away from innovations in the medium, and … Continue reading Review: Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s FEVER ROOM presented by Theatreworks
This January, the very first visual arts festival will be launched at Gillman Barracks! Organised by Chan + Hori, in partnership with the National Arts Council, DISINI officially opens tonight in conjunction with Art After Dark x Singapore Art Week 2018. “Visual arts has always been periphery to most of the major festivals here in Singapore,” Chan + Hori curatorial director Khairuddin Hori says. “So we … Continue reading Singapore Art Week 2018: DISINI Festival at Gillman Barracks
Petrina Kow is a storyteller. And we don’t mean that metaphorically – she is, after all, a co-founder of storytelling platform Telling Stories Live, and as a vocal and speech trainer, not to mention a former top radio deejay, she’s basically a master of the spoken word. So when she was approached by M1 Singapore Fringe Festival artistic director Sean Tobin to do a show this year, naturally, … Continue reading M1 Singapore Fringe Festival 2018: A Beginner’s Guide To Walking In Beauty with Petrina Kow and Anita Kapoor (Interview)
February is fast on our heels and you know what that means? The Esplanade’s annual Huayi Festival is back with a smorgasbord of new productions to feed your spirit and soul with art! There’s a whole range of options available this year, from theatre to music to dance and everything in between, and we’ve summarized what you can expect from this year’s festival, set to be … Continue reading Preview: Esplanade presents Huayi Festival 2018
There’s been a spate of large scale productions and festivals that seem to endlessly hit Singapore each month clamouring for attention. So perhaps there’s a kind of comfort in getting away from the madness of it all and finding something altogether different. This February, one show arises to buck the trend and showcase two actors, each just finding the space to tell a story. That … Continue reading Theatre Stars of the Future: An Interview with Erwin Shah Ismail and Kimberly Chan of GenerAsia’s Journeys
Rei Poh is a geek who likes video games. And being the innovative theatremaker he is, it makes complete sense that he’d apply it to his work as well. We decided to spontaneously meet up with Rei on bump in day to find out a little more about just what his mysterious new show, Attempts: Singapore is all about. “I used to work with Drama Box and we … Continue reading M1 Singapore Fringe Festival 2018: An Interview with Rei Poh (Attempts: Singapore)
This April, get ready for the return of one of the Best Sports Events of the Year (according to the 2016 Sport Singapore Awards), as the HSBC Singapore Rugby Sevens touches down at the National Stadium, bigger and better and ever! With attractive family weekend packages ranging from $120 (Category 2) to $320 (Category 1) for 2 adult and 2 youth tickets (4-18 years), you’ll … Continue reading Preview: HSBC Singapore Rugby Sevens 2018
Filmmaker Apichatpong Weerasethakul is perhaps best known for his breakout work Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives, the first Thai film and first Southeast Asian to ever win a Palme d’Or at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival. Now, to kickstart their 2018 season, TheatreWorks Curators Academy is proud to welcome Apichatpong onto our shores with his touring work FEVER ROOM. Playing at the Victoria Theatre from 25th … Continue reading Preview: FEVER ROOM presented by Theatreworks
The stunning Moonlight may have taken all the thunder as Best Picture at the Academy Awards back in 2017, but writer Tarell Alvin McCraney is set to continue making waves in January with an all new staging of his play The Brothers Size. Directed by the acclaimed Bijan Sheibani, The Brothers Size follows two African-American brothers Ogun and Oshoosi after a spell in prison, reuniting through the power of … Continue reading Preview: The Brothers Size by Young Vic and Actors Touring Company
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