Want to go clubbing but get fit at the same time? The ILLUMI Fest Run is back this March for that simultaneous feel-good glow from the runner’s high and literal glow water! For one night only, Marina Bay will become a neon playground as participants tear through the night in the very heart of Singapore as they get doused with neon glow water. Along the way, there’ll be … Continue reading Preview: Illumi Fest Run 2018
Asia’s biggest sustainable light art festival is back this March! Organised by the Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA), the sixth edition of the annual i Light Marina Bay will run from 9th March to 1st April around the bay, with an all new set of light installation works specially commissioned from local artists, and curated from all around the world. With a focus on eco-friendly/recycled materials … Continue reading Preview: i Light Marina Bay 2018, Asia’s Biggest Sustainable Lights Festival
Of the many performance spaces within the Esplanade, there’s never been one quite as unique as the carpark, being used for the very first time by experimental theatre company Emergency Stairs as they return to Huayi with their new production Einstein In The Carpark. Directed and conceptualized by Emergency Staris artistic director Liu Xiaoyi, Einstein In The Carpark takes inspiration from physicist Albert Einstein’s theory of relativity, … Continue reading Huayi 2018: Einstein In The Carpark by Emergency Stairs (Preview)
This Huayi Festival, the Esplanade welcomes Hong Kong’s Edward Lam Dance Theatre to Singapore as they present a truly unique theatrical show that reflects on modern relationships, inspired, oddly enough, by the classic Chinese collection Liaozhai Zhiyi. Directed by award-winning director Edward Lam himself and written by the acclaimed playwright-actress Wong Wing Sze, Why We Chat? follows an aspiring writer (popular Taiwanese-Hong Kong singer/actor David Wang) as he shafts … Continue reading Huayi 2018: Why We Chat? by Edward Lam Dance Theatre (Preview)
In a company first, leading arts companies Nine Years Theatre joins forces with T.H.E. Dance Company to produce an all new physical theatre/movement piece inspired by the works of author Franz Kafka. Kafka is best known for his surreal works that’ve influenced readers across the world, and certainly one of the most unique writers of the 20th century, with works such as The Metamorphosis, The … Continue reading Huayi 2018: Cut Kafka! by Nine Years Theatre and T.H.E. Dance Company (Preview)
It’s funny cause it’s true. Russell Peters is one of those comedians you never forget. But it’s not just for having coined one liners like “Be a man, do the right thing!”, there’s something incredibly convincing about the unabashed way he delivers his punchlines that makes you just want to laugh out loud. It’s no wonder then that on the very first Asian stop of … Continue reading Review: AEG Presents Russell Peters – DEPORTED World Tour
It is perhaps fitting that the Esplanade’s 2018 Huayi Festival kicked off on Friday (Feb 23) with a local production starring one of Singapore’s largest breakout stars in China of 2017 – Joanna Dong, who placed third in the reality singing contest Sing! China. I came at last to the seas – directed by Kuo Jian Hong, written by Chinese playwright Wu Xi and featuring an … Continue reading Huayi 2018: I came at last to the seas by The Theatre Practice (Review)
Dwayne Lau and friends showcase love in all its forms in this brave, heartfelt show. Dwayne Lau is a man who cuts to the chase. After all, it’s only the second time he’s staging his sketch/revue show A Date with Dwayne, and already, he’s inviting audience members into his house! Held at the ITE College Central Black Box, A Date With Dwayne – Let’s Go … Continue reading Review: A Date With Dwayne – Let’s Go Steady! by Dwayne Lau
The Taiwanese theatre group ramp up the soap opera potential in Shakespeare through their farcical and madcap adaptation of the Bard’s history plays. Think it’s hard keeping up with the Kardashians? Shakespeare’s Wild Sisters Group will have you know that they’ve got nothing on the House of Plantaganet. Directed by Wang Chia-Ming, the entirety of the War of the Roses is charted in a loose, 2-hour adaptation of … Continue reading Huayi 2018: Blood & Rose Ensemble by Shakespeare’s Wild Sisters Group (Review)
Multiple-Life Theatre Award 2018 nominee Pangdemonium springs into their 2018 season with one of their most socially relevant plays yet – Florian Zeller’s The Father. Receiving critical acclaimed when it premiered on London’s West End, The Father stars Lim Kay Siu as Andre, a man who’s fallen prey to dementia and becomes increasingly unsure of the very fabric of reality and the world he lives in. Prior … Continue reading Pangdemonium’s The Father: An Interview with Actors Lim Kay Siu and Keagan Kang
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