Performance

W!ld Rice’s “Hotel” at Adelaide’s OzAsia Festival

In 2015 Singapore celebrated ‘SG50’, the city-state’s golden jubilee, marking 50 years of independence as a sovereign nation. Commissioned by the Singapore International Festival of Arts to respond to that year’s theme of ‘Post-Empires’, W!ld Rice created Hotel, a sprawling, four-and-a-half-hour-long play in two parts intended to subvert the nationalistic triumphalism of the jubilee’s official […]

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“Off Kilter”: Interview with Ramesh Meyyappan by Stephanie Burridge

The Asia Europe Foundation’s Culture360 and ArtsEquator present a series of 5 co-commissioned articles that look at arts groups, artists and performances in Southeast Asia that are comprised of or address artists with disabilities. In this article, Stephanie Burridge talks with performance-maker Ramesh Meyyappan about inclusivity, the need for hearing and hearing-impaired artists to share the same

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2 – 8 October: Singapore

            9th Love & Pride Film Festival by Golden Village and Singapore Film Society, various GV cinemas, 27 Sept – 8 Oct Curated by the Singapore Film Society (SFS), Golden Village’s 12-day Love & Pride Film Festival returns for its 9th year, featuring a bold lineup of six internationally acclaimed

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2 – 8 October 2017: Indonesia

Top Picks of Indonesia art events in Jakarta and Padang Panjang from 2 – 8 October 2017   JAKARTA   Sayang, Sayangilah Jiwamu, 6-8 October 2017, Kineforum, Taman Ismail Marzuki, Jakarta In this 21st century, it is still rather difficult to discuss mental disturbances openly despite the fatal effect of such disturbance. In an effort

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The theater talkback: Why they’re popular, and why playwrights aren’t always pleased [USA]

“The final line is spoken, the audience applauds, the actors take their bows. But at an increasing number of theaters, the night isn’t over. Audiences often settle back into their seats. It’s time for the talkback, a chance to discuss the play with the actors, the director or sometimes the playwright. For theaters, the talkback

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Susan Sentler’s “Roof Response” to Danh Vō at National Gallery Singapore

In what ways does an art institution inhabit the stone mausoleums of two former colonial structures; how can citizens take ownership of those immaculately preserved halls? Susan Sentler trained at the Martha Graham School in New York, danced with the Martha Graham Ensemble and is currently based in Singapore, teaching at LASALLE College of the

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Martial Law Musicals: Theatre of a New War? [Philippines]

“Philippine theater has, through three eras of political struggle—Filipino-American, Japanese, anti-Marcos—never hesitated to go to war.” – – Doreen G. Fernandez, Seditious and Subversive: Theater of War From the essay cited above two important ideas emerge: that war breeds theatre and that theatre is a particularly effective weapon of protest. As Fernadez’s survey shows, the

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Podcast 25: Tapestry Playback Theatre

Duration: 17 mins Ahead of their upcoming performance this weekend titled Does It Matter?, we spoke with Michael Cheng, artistic director of Tapestry Playback Theatre, on his journey with the company, and the unique aspects of the playback theatre form as an art for social change. Stream Podcast 25: Download Podcast 25 here. (right-click and select ‘Save

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Podcast 24: Singapore Repertory Theatre’s “Forbidden City: Portrait of an Empress”

Duration: 30 mins Matthew Lyon and Naeem Kapadia are back in the studio again to discuss yet another Singapore-bred musical: Singapore Repertory Theatre’s re-staging of the acclaimed Forbidden City: Portrait of an Empress. Having run from 8 to 27 August 2017, this year’s production is its fourth iteration since its premiere at the Opening Festival of the Esplanade

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Lighten Up: “Terbalik… Mesti Kena Mata” by Five Arts Centre

By Ann Lee (1470 words, 10-minute read) Terbalik… mesti kena mata was billed as an “experimental workshop” performance that attempted to “displace the normal hierarchy found in performance-making” by having the lighting designer, Mac Chan, as the principal artist. Co-directors, Marion D’Cruz and Ivy Josiah, marking their first collaboration in these roles, adhered to the

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4 – 10 September 2017: Indonesia

Top Picks of Indonesia art events in Jakarta and Yogyakarta from 4 – 10 Sep 2017   JAKARTA   +51 Aviación San Borja, 6 – 7 September 2017, 8 PM, Teater Salihara, Jakarta The title of this performance by Okazaki Art Theatre is lifted from Peru’s international calling code and director Yudai Kamisato’s grandma’s address

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The Orange Production: A Double Bill by The Necessary Stage

By Akanksha Raja (800 words, 7-minute read) The Orange Production is The Necessary Stage’s platform for experimental collaborations, producing new, pocket-sized works. This inaugural showcase is a double-bill featuring Drip, by journalist and emerging playwright Nabilah Said, and Whale Fall by Faith Ng. While the two works are vastly different in structure and themes, they

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“Blank Run《空转》” by The Theatre Practice: Repiecing Trauma

By Sherlyn Goh (970 words, 8-minute read) “Can one accurately re-construct an authentic traumatic memory?” Director Kuo Jian Hong posed this question to the audience before the start of the performance. Blank Run《空转》is an attempt to answer this, presented as a raw and visceral recollection of sexual trauma, where a woman pieces together memories that

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“Becoming Graphic”: Life in Graphic Form

By Alvin Lim (1235 words, 10-minute read) Becoming Graphic is both a meditative and mediated performance about living and dying. Commissioned by Singapore International Festival of Arts, graphic novelist Sonny Liew and theatre practitioner Edith Podesta come together to create a cross-disciplinary performance that breaks boundaries. The parallels, and thus the comparisons, between two forms—theatre

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Human+

Podcast 23: Human+ by Khairul Kamsani

Duration: 13 min Latest in our Fresh Blood series on young emerging art-makers, we speak to Khairul Kamsani, a independent director who is writing, directing, and producing Human+, a speculative theatre play on the contentious future of our relationship with technology. Inspired by recent developments in the Transhumanist movement, it’s an updated iteration of its

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