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Vithya Subramaniam is an anthropologist and playwright interested in the agency of objects and the materialities of being. She is presently a doctoral student at the University of Oxford, UK; and member of Brown Voices, a collective of Singapore Indian playwrights. Vithya's interest in the arts currently lies with works that evoke the experience of space, memory, and materiality; and with Singaporean Indian theatre.

Agam Theatre Lab

Re Somma and Tamil Theatre in Singapore

By Vithya Subramaniam, in conversation with Karthikeyan Somasundaram Why stage a piece about, and play your own father? What is Tamil Theatre in Singapore? And did Karthik really need to put on a full face of paint just for that one 12-minute scene? Vithya Subramaniam and Karthikeyan Somasundaram chat about Re Somma—a ‘bioplay’ on Singaporean […]

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Arts House Limited

The Body Witness: Gardens Speak, en route, As Far As Isolation Goes at SIFA 2021

By Vithya Subramaniam (1,600 words, 6-minute read) Though cancelled last year amid the developing pandemic, Singapore International Festival of Arts has done well to lean into the possibilities of small-group, distanced programmes for this year’s line-up. I attended three of its immersive experiences—Gardens Speak, As Far As Isolation Goes, and en route—and found my body

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CK Eng

A few walks-with: Vel Vel: A Sonic Walk and more

By Vithya Subramaniam (1,961 words, 8-minute read) We’ve taken more walks these days, haven’t we? Walking isn’t new to us. There hasn’t been a time when we were not walking. But this simple universal act has found new meanings over this last year. Here in Singapore, some of us walked along old train tracks for

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Emergency Stairs

Offstage 3.0: Of stage and on walls

By Vithya Subramaniam (915 words, 4-minute read) It begins with a provocation, asking if we can ‘change the way we make theatre in the future’. The concern here is in the way theatre is made, the process. While raising these questions might seem to suggest upending theatre as we know it, Offstage 3.0 presents a

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