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Home Boxes
I kickstart my Studios Season with Home Boxes by Paper Monkey Theatre Ltd. This play coalesces dance, music, drama and puppetry, 6 actors take on multiple roles to tell three tales of love; parents’ love, children’s love, romantic love. Pat loves her father, but she loves acting more. Renee loves her overachievement and hates her [...]
Model Citizens
Very bold, very raw and very well executed. The synopsis reads, “A man stabs an MP at a Meet the People Session. But this is not their story.” Indeed. The play talks of three women linked directly and indirectly to the MP. The Chinese-educated wife, the Indonesian maid lover of the stabber, and the Peranakan [...]
Chestnuts Does Christmas Like a Hard Candy Virgin
This review is way overdue it’s not timely anymore. However I was just trying to sort out my feelings for Chestnuts – I had to make sure it’s true love and not just that fluffy head-in-the-cloud feeling of infatuation or new love. Chestnuts and I, we go way back (ok, maybe just 6 years.) Anyway, [...]
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Devil’s Encore
Synopsis from the pamphlet: Ladies and gentlemen, welcome ot our jazz club, right here in the middle of nowhere. Tonight, we will serve you the usual: this one will play the piano, and the other will sing and tell you some stories. Like the tale of his dead lover, who has come back to haunt [...]
Sleepless Town
I was invited to the gala night of Sleepless Town (through family relations) by Toy Factory. As usual, saw familiar faces there, SAT NEXT TO a familiar face I don’t want to name and didn’t want to acknowledge (because I have never read his works). Anyway, I’m not a fan of musicals. And I never [...]
Dark Knuts: Welcome to Avenue Quantum
Just got back. It was dope. ‘Nuff said. (Actually I am lazy to blog lah.) And don’t want to give out spoilers, right? Saw a few familiar faces in the crowd at Victoria Theatres. Interesting. Anyway, more to come tomorrow when I’m in better shape to blog.
Blood Binds: Sperm and the Lunar Interviews
What are the ties that bind? What does it mean to be related by blood? Is blood really thicker than water? Funny, moving and close to the heart of every parent and child, Blood Binds challenges and explodes easy assumptions about parenthood through the lenses of age, desire and myth. (Taken from the official website.) [...]
Angel-ism
Four friends sip coffee and exchange tales. One of them brushes her arched, feathered wings, while another steadily contemplates the instrument in his hands. The other two debate incessantly about human rights and wrongs and the appraisal system they try so hard to uphold. Suddenly, the winged musician rises and declares he is taking the [...]
Mama’s Wedding
(Picture from Action Theatre website) The opening act was abysmal. Who in the right mind let this stupid angmoh saunter into local theatre to dig at local women? Making false claims of SQ stewardess, putting up the wrong accents to make fun of the minority races, insulting CJC female students … this guy and his [...]
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