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Amitha Amranand is a Bangkok-based theatre critic and writer. Her theatre criticism mainly appears in the Bangkok Post. She is also the co-founder and co-host of Bangkok Offstage, the first bilingual podcast on the performing arts in Bangkok and beyond.

The Rod Stewart of Thailand, the Queen of Action Movies, a novelist persecuted by the government, seven National Artists and an iconoclastic Thai critic

Amitha Amranand remembers the artists and cultural workers Thailand lost in 2022.

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Thanapol Virulhakul’s “The Retreat”: Dance, Uncontained

By Amitha Amranand (1,350 words, 5-minute read) Thai dancer-choreographer Thanapol Virulhakul is certainly not the first artist to wonder whether art could become more of a part of our daily life nor to attempt through his art to make it more so. It is difficult to see that attempt in The Retreat, or to even

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Asian Arts Media Roundtable

Podcast 61: The Media Landscape in Thailand

Duration: 20 min In our latest podcast, Thai theatre critic Amitha Amranand gives a comprehensive overview of the media landscape in Thailand, discussing the impact of the political and legal system on the arts and the paradoxical freedom that arts journalists have in the country. This presentation was part of a series of Country Media

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“Pratthana: A Portrait of Possession”: Of Politics and Desire

Everyone is always watching and being watched in Pratthana: A Portrait of Possession, the latest play by Japanese director Toshiki Okada. The play begins with a Narcissus-like image—a young man gazes into the water as he describes a scene of a man being watched by another. Behind the actor, crew members tip an orange plastic

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