Filed under: Theatre | Tags: 10-minute plays, actors, artzine singapore, artzinesg, call for entries, directors, playwrights, Short+Sweet Singapore 2009, Theatre
This Australian grown-festival is back in Singapore to showcase 10-minute plays written by local and international playwrights.
Filed under: Visual Art | Tags: Eun Ju Jang, Fyerool Darma, SG Private Banking Gallery Alliance Française de Singapour, Shariefah Shamsir, Simon Ng Yong Heng, Sour Jokes exhibition
Opening 27 January at the Alliance Française de Singapour, Sour Jokes will surprise you with works from Lasalle students.
Filed under: Commentaries, Theatre | Tags: artzine singapore, artzinesg, m1 singapore fringe festival, rannald sim, Review: Betrayed Babies by Panggung Arts, theatre review
By: Rannald Sim
A missed opportunity
Betrayed Babies is essentially a play about techies acting as actors when none show up for rehearsal, and are of course acted by none other by the techies in Panggung ARTS themselves.
Filed under: Commentaries, Theatre | Tags: artzine singapore, artzinesg, m1 singapore fringe festival 2009, rannald sim, Review: Father.Mother.Dog by Futur3, theatre review
By: Rannald Sim
Family just is.
I absolutely loved _father.mother.dog/. It bedazzles. It is provocative, eccentric, disturbing and yet enthralling. Humour is blended with tension, angst and resent, strewn in with a dash of Freud and a pick of the future. Amongst the plays in the Fringe Festival that I watched, it was perhaps the only one which dared to portray a vision for a radically different notion of ‘family’, and boldly questioned human nature itself.
Filed under: Commentaries, Dance | Tags: artzine singapore, artzinesg, Dance Review: Iodine by Deganit Shemy, M1 Singapore Fringe Festival Reviews
By: Chan Sze Wei
As promised, Iodine was stinging and gritty. It was not as beautiful as it was powerful. These were dancers in another light, of a raw, corporeal intensity that we do not often see in Singapore.
Filed under: Commentaries, Dance | Tags: artzine singapore, artzinesg, Dance Review: Variacions Al.leluia by Lanònima Imperial, esplanade, j. raven yep, m1 singapore fringe festival 2009
By J.Raven Yep
“Nobody understands life. We only interpret life.”
Variacions’ director, Juan Carlos Garcìa mentioned this during the dialogue session held in the Esplanade Theatre Studio. True enough, that was the prominent theme of Variacions Al.leluia, the dance piece performed by Spanish group, Lanònima Imperial.
Filed under: Commentaries, Theatre | Tags: artzine singapore, artzinesg, TheatreReview: We Live in a Box by Irfan Kasban
By: Rannald Sim
What the Box really means.
We Live in a Box is Irfan Kasban’s debut English play which was held at the Substation as part of the M1 Singapore Fringe Festival. The small enclosed space of the Guinness Theatre clearly fits the bill as suggested by the title, though somebody has got to do something about those darned seats.
Filed under: Commentaries, Dance | Tags: artzine singapore, artzinesg, dance review Within.Without by T.H.E. Dance Company, M1 Singapore Fringe Festiv
by Chan Sze-Wei
For several of this year’s M1 Singapore Fringe Festival performances, “family” is interpreted as an enforced relationship; individuals with whom we do not choose our intimacy but to which we nevertheless have to adapt.
Filed under: Commentaries, Theatre | Tags: artzine singapore, artzinesg, M1 Singapore Fringe Festival Reviews, Stephanie Jade, Theatre Review Looming the Memory
By: Stephanie Jade
Who would’ve thought a handmade rug could transport us to a rural village in Greece? Thomas Papathanassiou does just that. His astounding one man show, Looming the Memory, is a memoir that draws on the theme of identity, family, heritage, and home.
Filed under: Commentaries, Theatre | Tags: alvin tan, art & the family, artzine singapore, artzinesg, haresh sharma, j.raven yep, Najib Soiman, Review of Frozen Angels by The Necessary Stage, Siti Khalijah, theatre review
By J. Raven Yep
When did time come to a standstill?
The M1 Singapore Fringe Festival opened on 7 Jan at the National Museum with the theme of Art & The Family. Launching the event was Frozen Angels, a production by The Necessary Stage.
