The Theatre Practice’s M1 Patch! A Theatre Festival of Artful Play returns for its second edition this June. Running for 3 months at the home of The Theatre Practice on Waterloo Street, a lengthy lineup of activities are set for this year’s edition, kicking off with an overnight camp in the theatre in June, and following up with a series of workshops, performances and more … Continue reading Preview: M1 Patch! 2019 by The Theatre Practice
Humanitarian workers go through dreary office politics just like you and me. The issue of refugees and mass migration has been one of the hottest topics on everyone’s lips in recent years, with many a play made about the problems the displaced go through themselves. But few plays have actually dealt with the oft forgotten players in the crisis – the humanitarian aid workers tirelessly … Continue reading SIFA 2019: Displaced Persons Welcome Dinner by Checkpoint Theatre (Review)
Reclaiming gender in this new adaptation of a classic Greek tale. In its various adaptations, Ifigenia at Tauris has seesawed between two perspectives. In Euripedes’ original play, like its title, the priestess Ifigenia took centrestage, the protagonist in this drama about a sister who has to make a choice between obeying the law and sacrificing her brother Oreste to the gods, or rebel and save him. … Continue reading SIFA 2019: Oreste by Ifigenia by Tan Shou Chen and Ng Tian Hui (Review)
The impossible task of putting the meditative mind onstage is achieved in this visually stunning work from Japan. Created by Japanese artist Shiro Takatani and his company Dumb Type, ST/LL is one of those rare, brilliantly inventive works of art that defies definition, combining dance, music, video and theatre to produce a series of masterful visual images in motion. Cerebral and abstract in form, there are perhaps … Continue reading SIFA 2019: ST/LL by Shiro Takatani, Dumb Type (Review)
Last Saturday saw the launch of the inaugural AIA Glow Festival organized by Exceed Sports And Entertainment, as Sentosa was taken over by a full day’s worth of activities encouraging the 15,000 plus visitors to lead healthier, longer, better lives with the plethora of programmes lined up. Says AIA Head of Brand and Corporate Communications Joanna Ong-Ash: “This year marks AIA’s 100th anniversary, and this … Continue reading AIA Glow Festival 2019: Bringing Together Good Food, Good Music and Good Vibes
“It seems that every 10 years, there’s a series about the planets that comes around,” says producer Gideon Bradshaw. He’s not wrong there – in 1999, BBC Two’s highly successful mini-series The Planets was launched, featuring appearances from famous pioneering space scientists and explorers, archival footage from both US and Soviet space programmes and narrated by Samuel West. About a decade later in 2011, BBC Two … Continue reading Television Time: An Interview with Gideon Bradshaw, Producer of BBC’s The Planets
Ding Yi Music Company has received the third Singapore Chinese Cultural Contribution Award (Organisation), awarded by the Singapore Chinese Cultural Centre. Having started in 2017, the award recognises individuals and organisations from various arts and culture sectors in Singapore, who have made outstanding contributions in the promotion, enrichment and development to the Singapore Chinese culture. Since being founded in 2007, Ding Yi has made major … Continue reading Ding Yi Music Company Awarded The Third Singapore Chinese Cultural Contribution Award (Organisation)
The 26th edition of the Singapore International Piano Festival returns this May and brings together four of the world’s best virtuoso pianists, each performing solo at the Victoria Concert Hall over the four day festival. In the lead-up to the performances, we spoke to veteran British pianist Ronan O’Hora, who has performed in every major country in Europe and the USA, Canada, Australasia and South … Continue reading Singapore International Piano Festival 2019: An Interview with Pianist Ronan O’Hara
The 26th edition of the Singapore International Piano Festival returns this May and brings together four of the world’s best virtuoso pianists, each performing solo at the Victoria Concert Hall over the four day festival. In the lead-up to the performances, we spoke to Chinese pianist Sa Chen, whose playing has been described by the legendary Paul Badura Skoda as a pianist “like an angel from … Continue reading Singapore International Piano Festival 2019: An Interview with Pianist Sa Chen
This June, Pick up new cooking tips and tricks from celebrity chef Donal Skehan in Donal’s Meals in Minutes (Series 2), explore the amazing planets that live alongside Earth in a stunningly ambitious docudrama – The Planets, and gain a deeper understanding of America’s death penalty system in Life and Death Row (Series 2). BBC EARTH The Placebo Experiment: Can My Brain Cure My Body? Could placebos be used to … Continue reading Television Time: BBC Shows June 2019
