Category Archives: Theatre

Chesty Nutty Bang Bang: The Hairspray of the Phoenix

Visit the official website here. I. LOVE. THIS. SHOW. I caught it during the preview on Wednesday, and once more today. Just because I love it so much. This is my 5th Chestnuts show, and I’ve been catching it dutifully every year since 2003. Recently I heard that there’s an atas acquaintance who went for…

The Campaign to Confer the Public Service Star on JBJ

I watched this on Saturday night with Angela, which was incidentally the 2nd last performance for this play. I was complaining loudly to her that I never had to buy circle seat tickets for plays, especially at the Drama Centre or Jubilee Hall. I usually buy preview shows, and I convinced her that preview shows are…

Real Men, Fake Orgasms

Till death do us apart, in sickness, in health, in prison, and in transit… These men don’t get it. Caught in an emotional Siberia, two men leap frog across continuum of different spaces and times to find each other to stay together. But fate hands them a rough deal of cards. Transposed to a prison…

Theatre Idols 2007

So I went to the Theatre Idols finals last night at the Esplanade Concert Hall. It was a face-off between the veteran, Ovidia Yu and the young upstart, Chong Tze Chien. Yu’s play is Hitting (on) Women, and Chong’s play is On Sundays the Kites Come Out to Play. On Sundays is a comedy, a distinct…

Theatre Idols Semi-finals

So, I went for Theatre Idols Semi-finals yesternight at Action Theatre’s place at Waterloo Street (ooh that place is pretty; shall drag people to go dine at Le Pont de Vie, which is a French restaurant housed in their building). Yesternight was the battle of the veterans, between Ovidia Yu and Desmond Sim – one…

Pulau (欲望岛屿)

(Picture taken from Gatecrash) Synopsis (from the programme booklet): The story happens on an island smaller than ours, barely large enough for two. With nowhere to go and nothing to do, they reminisce, talk, love, feed and play. It keeps them sane. An examination of our environment, our identity and things we have to forego….

Forbidden Chestnuts: Portraits of a Brokeback Geisha (pre-booking high)

Refer to official STAGES website for more details. So it’s been pushed back one month to January (rather than the customary December) - nearly panicked the soul out of me when I check the blardy site every 2 days for updates. I’m so damn happy to see the poster… but booking only starts 1 Dec, through Gatecrash….

Fundamentally Happy

Synopsis: Eric, a 30-year-old social worker, returns to his childhood neighbourhood and looks for the home of his old neighbour. He finds that the couple are still living there, older and with children. As Eric and his old neighbour Habiba reminisce “the old days”, a shocking secret is revealed – one that would forever change…

The Magic Fundoshi

(Poster taken from Wildrice.com.sg) In the words of a random citizen from Wallace and Gromit, “Beware of the moon!” This production is definitely not for the prudish, faint-hearted, intellectually-challenged and possibly anyone below the age of 569. I’m serious. You think you might never live the day to hear that Wanni is irked by the…