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Kalaa Utsavam 2017: Anjaneyam – Hanuman’s Ramayana by Apsaras Arts

Indian culture and mythology spans centuries, giving birth to hundreds of tales about various gods and goddesses, royals and monsters. So it stands to reason that the 2017 Kalaa Utsavam – Indian Festival of Arts would open with an adaptation of one of the most famous tales of all – the Ramayana.  Focusing on the life and adventures of the monkey god Hanuman (played by Hari … Continue reading Kalaa Utsavam 2017: Anjaneyam – Hanuman’s Ramayana by Apsaras Arts

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Arts, Dance with Me, Esplanade Theatre Studio, Experimental, Music, Review, Singapore, Singapore Arts, Theatre., Theatre, Theatres

Kalaa Utsavam 2017: Khwaab-Sa – Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream by The Company Theatre (Review)

Khwaab-Sa opens with a spotlight on lithe, petite dancer Ronita Mookerji as the iconic spirit Puck. In the background, a musician clad in a unicorn mask assaults our ears with loud electronic music, as Mookerji writhes and vibrates. Grinning madly, she laughs silently before impishly back-flipping across the stage, a moon projection making her lunacy obvious. This is Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream as you’ve never seen … Continue reading Kalaa Utsavam 2017: Khwaab-Sa – Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream by The Company Theatre (Review)

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Mosaic Music Series 2017: Shugo Tokumaru (Review)

Last in Singapore in 2013, Japanese multi-intrumental experimental musician Shugo Tokumaru has since released his seventh album. On TOSS, Tokumaru has expanded his quirky, eclectic pop music further still, including collaborating with Deerhoof drummer Greg Saunier, to reach new sonic heights, employing instruments from xylophones to ukuleles and harps to handclaps to create impossibly colourful sounds that would give anyone synaesthesia. So it’s no surprise then that at his show at the … Continue reading Mosaic Music Series 2017: Shugo Tokumaru (Review)

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Arts, Esplanade Recital Studio, Esplanade Theatre, Esplanade Theatre Studio, Review, Singapore, Singapore Arts, Theatre., Theatre, Theatres

#mydurianturns15: Backstage Pass with… Siti K

Without a doubt, we can safely say that Siti Khalijah Zainal is one of our absolute favourite actresses in the local theatre scene. Always armed with a smile and bubbling over with incredible energy, Siti has charmed our socks off, making us laugh and cry in productions as varied as Meena and Cheena and Rosnah. So it’s really no surprise that when we found out she was part of … Continue reading #mydurianturns15: Backstage Pass with… Siti K

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Review: A Carribbean Dream dir. Shakirah Bourne

Even when Shakespeare has been done to death, it always amazes us how directors constantly come up with new ways to visualize the bard’s work. The latest iteration, A Caribbean Dream, adapts A Midsummer Night’s Dream into a Barbados, modern day setting, rife with the feel of the carnival, with plenty of big, colourful costumes to represent the fairy realm, and romance at the edge of … Continue reading Review: A Carribbean Dream dir. Shakirah Bourne

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Review: The Sound of Music at Mastercard Theatres

Hailed as one of the great musical classics, The Sound of Music has returned to Singapore’s shores to bring back all your favourite songs and more! Last seen here in 2014, Andrew Lloyd Webber’s production of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s unforgettable and arguably, most successful musical features an all new cast with all of the same favourite elements. This is a production that knows exactly what it’s doing, … Continue reading Review: The Sound of Music at Mastercard Theatres

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Review: Our Town by Intercultural Theatre Institute

The final performance of each batch of Intercultural Theatre Institute (ITI) graduating students always finishes with a bang, and Our Town is no different. Directed by Arts NMP and Dramabox Artistic Director Kok Heng Leun in his first solo directorial effort since 2015, the production manages to bring Thornton Wilder’s classic play to new heights, highlighting the play’s underlying concerns about distance and lost time. Kok’s vision … Continue reading Review: Our Town by Intercultural Theatre Institute

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Singapore Writers Festival 2017: We Can be Heroes, Just For One Day

Eight writers from the UK, Ireland, Iran, Australia and Singapore gathered in the Arts House Chamber and celebrated their personal heroes tonight through the written word. Moderated by poet Marc Nair who described the Singapore Writers Festival reading-and- performance event as “a dessert buffet” of sorts, the strong line-up of artists indeed dished out a feast of tantalizing treats for all, with an assortment of flavours … Continue reading Singapore Writers Festival 2017: We Can be Heroes, Just For One Day

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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

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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

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