(Picture taken from TimeOutSingapore) On This Emerald Hill is a one-actor play by Jonathan Lim. It mashes Stella Kon’s Emily of Emerald Hill with Kuo Pao Kun’s The coffin is too big for the hole. The play starts with Emily arranging a high-tea session over the phone after paying respect to the graves of her…
Tan Tarn How’s new absurdist play, Fear of Writing explores the themes of self-censorship and politics. Staged in Theatreworks’ open space at 72-13 Mohammed Sultan, the set is minimalist and interactive. Audience sit on moveable furniture facing different directions in the room, actors materialize on different corners of the room and onscreen, projected onto the…
Image taken from TodayOnline This post is overdue – blame it on my reluctance to choose blogging over reading and The Sims 3. I watched a Thursday evening show of Cooling Off Day, alongside a motley crowd of theatre people (e.g. Robin Goh), frequent theatergoers and fresh never-gone-to-theatre-before virgins (you can totally tell these lot…
Image taken from TimeOut Singapore. Charged is a play by Teater Ekamatra, as part of the Man Singapore Theatre Festival. The play starts off with the death of two NSmen on Chinese New Year Eve- one Chinese, the other one Malay. The coroners report that a single gunshot killed the Malay boy, while the Chinese…
My sister won tickets in a Facebook contest for a matinee Cirque Eloize (ay-lua-z) show, titled iD, and she kindly gave me the pair of tickets and I roped KL in to go watch! I watched the trailer on Youtube, and frankly, I wasn’t stoked by the trailer. The real show, is a different story….
Image from TimeOut Singapore *Spoiler Alert!* The second show I caught as part of the Esplanade The Studios season this year is A True Calling, a production by Ex-Theatre Asia. True Calling is staged in Mandarin, Taiwanese and Manipuri (Indian regional language) by two actors. The play tells of a folktale involving The Actor, who…
Desire At The Melancholic String Concert (henceforth Desire) is produced by Cake Theatrical Productions as part of the Esplanade Studio Season, my favourite arts festival/ season in Singapore. This year, the theme appears to be Music and Sound. Cake Theatre, in collaboration with indie band Tiramisu brings a small-scale musical-like production into a black box….
This is a production in Mandarin by the Singapore Hokkien Huay Kwan Youth Drama Troupe. Made of five short plays this production explores, fundamentally, human love and relationships. Story 1 talks about a fashion designer who lost her first love from childhood and spends, unknowingly, her adult life dating men who are his precise opposites….
Balek Kampong by The Necessary Stage (TNS) tells two tales concurrently- one about championing freedom of speech in a regime, one about leaving home. In the first we see how foreign reporter ex-Singapore R faces detention by the authorities for writing misconstrued truths, how exchange student A gets expelled for the slightest reason, and how…
Something New, Something Old is a double-bill production in commemoration of Faithworks’ 10th anniversary. Faithworks, despite the name, is not a religious organization but a theatre group for the community, by the community. Frankly, I didn’t know they existed before this. And guess what? Their space is so near my house I can walk there….
