Preview: IMAGINIQUE – Singapore Children’s Festival 2019

This December, the inaugural edition of IMAGINIQUE – Singapore Children’s Festival comes to town, bringing with it a series of world-class, award-winning non-verbal performances from overseas. Managed by the Singapore Street Festival, IMAGINIQUE promises to be a life-changing experience, with shows that have been specially curated through an extensive study period using various platforms of non-verbal performances, interactive responses and musical theatre with engagement through Arts, Culture and … Continue reading Preview: IMAGINIQUE – Singapore Children’s Festival 2019

In London’s (Off) West End 2020: Young Vic Announces Two New Shows For 2020 Season – (Preview)

LONDON – Under the Taking Part programme, London’s Young Vic produces the highest quality participatory work with over 15,000 local people every year, allowing for a diverse range of people to perform in shows that respond to the work on the Young Vic stages. Much like how in previous productions Taking Part has worked alongside prisoners, refugees, homeless people, inpatients and participants with learning difficulties … Continue reading In London’s (Off) West End 2020: Young Vic Announces Two New Shows For 2020 Season – (Preview)

London’s VAULT Festival 2020: Tarot by The Feathers of Daedalus Circus (Preview)

LONDON –  Live Tarot reading meets mesmeric contemporary circus as The Feathers of Daedalus come to VAULT Festival with a spell-binding reworking of their Edinburgh Fringe hit, Tarot. Taking audiences on a thrilling and unpredictable adventure guided by fate, the visual imagery and characters of the cards are brought to life through skilled acrobatic and musical improvisation. Audience members are invited onstage for Tarot readings … Continue reading London’s VAULT Festival 2020: Tarot by The Feathers of Daedalus Circus (Preview)

Arts in Malaysia 2019/20: ILHAM Gallery and Singapore Art Museum Present The Body Politic and The Body (Preview)

KUALA LUMPUR – ILHAM Gallery and Singapore Art Museum (SAM) present ILHAM x SAM Project: The Body Politic and the Body from 8th December 2019 to 12th April 2020 at ILHAM Gallery in Kuala Lumpur. The first collaboration between ILHAM Gallery and SAM, it explores the many facets of contemporary art and its genealogies in Malaysia. The Body Politic and the Body is conceived as a … Continue reading Arts in Malaysia 2019/20: ILHAM Gallery and Singapore Art Museum Present The Body Politic and The Body (Preview)

Hong Kong 2020: Speaking in Tongues by Hong Kong Repertory Theatre (Preview)

HONG KONG – A complex web of relationships meeting a mysterious array of plot developments, Speaking in Tongues features four actors in nine roles playing three seemingly unrelated episodes, presenting multiple events from different perspectives. The story and its ramifications from diverse angles unfold as the narrative traverses time and space, with character relationships overlapping and crisscrossing as we face the choice between betrayal and trust. When Speaking in … Continue reading Hong Kong 2020: Speaking in Tongues by Hong Kong Repertory Theatre (Preview)

Hong Kong 2019/20: The Good Person of Szechwan – The Musical by Hong Kong Repertory Theatre (Preview)

HONG KONG – Adapted from German master dramatist Bertolt Brecht’s play The Good Person of Szechwan, Hong Kong Repertory Theatre (HKrep) presents a musical that exposes both the good and evil of humanity, prompting the audience to ponder hard choices between morality and reality. When this adaptation premiered in 2003, it garnered six Hong Kong Drama Awards, including Best Overall Performance, Best Original Music and … Continue reading Hong Kong 2019/20: The Good Person of Szechwan – The Musical by Hong Kong Repertory Theatre (Preview)

In London’s (Off) West End 2019: The Grid by Lollipop (Review)

Crafty sci-fi themed escape room and innovative cocktails make this experience one to remember. LONDON – With the advent of increasingly sophisticated artificial intelligence (AI), will robots one day rule the world? The answer to that may just be dependent on how well you fare at Lollipop’s sci-fi multi-chamber escape room The Grid.  Set at the offices of Neosight, The Grid tasks players with an all-important mission – … Continue reading In London’s (Off) West End 2019: The Grid by Lollipop (Review)

Review: Operatic Identities by CulturedGen

Modernising Chinese Opera for a contemporary audience. It’s not often that one thinks of ‘Instagram museums’ or immersive exhibitions as having a strong educational focus, but with CulturedGen’s Operatic Identities, the experiment in form has yielded success in making Beijing Opera ‘cool’ and intriguing. Conceptualised by Summer Song as inspired by her mother, a Beijing Opera performer and educator in Singapore, the idea behind Operatic Identities stemmed from … Continue reading Review: Operatic Identities by CulturedGen

Singapore International Festival of Arts 2020 Releases First Wave of Tickets, Confirms Local Commissions and Crystal Pite’s Revisor

Come its 43rd year in 2020, the Singapore International Festival of Arts (SIFA) returns with a slew of new works from both local and international artists in the month of May. The festival has released the first wave of tickets for five productions that will be making their debut next year, with local theatre companies Nine Years Theatre, The Finger Players and The Necessary Stage, … Continue reading Singapore International Festival of Arts 2020 Releases First Wave of Tickets, Confirms Local Commissions and Crystal Pite’s Revisor

London’s VAULT Festival 2020: Jekyll / Hyde by Fire Hazard Games (Preview)

LONDON –  Fire Hazard Games launches an exciting, new urban game for adults, based on Robert Louis Stevenson’s Gothic masterpiece, Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. Exploring schisms of identity, the unreliability of memory, moral conflict, terrible ambition, and unbridled hedonism, Jekyll / Hyde confronts players, asking what they would do if they could get away with murder. Waking up to the aftermath of Mr Hyde, players … Continue reading London’s VAULT Festival 2020: Jekyll / Hyde by Fire Hazard Games (Preview)