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In Bangkok, the first stage adaptation of MR Kukrit Pramoj’s “Lai Chiwit” (via The Nation)

If theatre-goers feel as if they’ve been going to Sodsai Pantoomkomol Centre for Dramatic Arts almost every month in 2016, it’s partly because Thailand’s first tertiary institution to offer a bachelor’s degree in modern theatre –Chulalongkorn University’s Department of Dramatic Arts – is celebrating its 45th anniversary. And as part of this celebration, the department […]

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Pawit Mahasarinand foresees Thai theatre in 2017 for The Nation

We said that the commercial theatre companies would put on fewer musicals and we were right. From their independent counterparts we expected more international collaboration thanks to support from foreign cultural institutions and again our words were prophetic. Now we are predicting that these two trends will continue in 2017. With the official mourning period

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Thailand’s thoughtful “Railway Sleepers” and more films at 14th World Film Festival of Bangkok

In Railway Sleepers, a minutely observed film shot entirely on-board a Thai train, we see kids on school trips, young men travelling north and south, hawkers selling food and horoscope books, families and lovers, vacationers who turn the sleeping car into a party venue. They’re passengers, and they’re also humans. They are, as director Sompot

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Thai photographer Tada Hengsapkul probes the naked at Gallery Seescape

Bangkok Post interviews Tada Hendsapkul, on his latest exhibition, “The Things That Take Us Apart”. “I have fallen in love with the language of human bodies. Bodies are more interesting than objects because there are also the minds that are hidden under, and their complexity shifts according to time…” Tags: Nudity  Tada Hengsapkul

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