Review: Invisible Room
June 4, 2009, 10:10 am
Filed under: Commentaries, Music | Tags: artzine singapore, artzinesg, invisible room by the observatory and ho tzu nyen and kok heng leun, singapore arts festival 2009
Filed under: Commentaries, Music | Tags: artzine singapore, artzinesg, invisible room by the observatory and ho tzu nyen and kok heng leun, singapore arts festival 2009

By: Hailey Tay
Invisible Room is a complete invasion of the definition of ‘Space’. Produced by The Observatory, a local rock band, filmmaker Ho Tzu Nyen and theatre director Kok Heng Leun, this collaboration for the Singapore Arts Festival 2009 sounds the ambitions of confinements.
Interview with Nelson Chia
June 4, 2009, 10:03 am
Filed under: Commentaries, People, Theatre | Tags: artzine singapore, artzinesg, Full frontal: LIV interview, Interview with director nelson chia, singapore arts festival 2009 commissioned work
Filed under: Commentaries, People, Theatre | Tags: artzine singapore, artzinesg, Full frontal: LIV interview, Interview with director nelson chia, singapore arts festival 2009 commissioned work

By: Hailey Tay
Full Frontal: LIV
LIV is a Singapore Arts Festival 09 commissioned work that Nelson Chia collaborate with A Group Of People. “LIV is an exploration of what it means to be Living or Alive.” Nelson discovered “that one can talk about death in a meaningful way only if (one has) examined the life that had been lived.”

Filed under: Commentaries, Theatre | Tags: artzine singapore, Jean Ng, artzinesg, the crab flower club by toy factory, theatre review singapore arts festival 2009, director goh boon teck, cao xue qin's poems, nell ng, noorlinah mohd, janice koh, patricia toh
By: Sarima Jasmin
At the Singapore Arts Festival 2009, Toy Factory Productions displayed yet another brilliant local theatre piece. Directed by the acclaimed author and director Goh Boon Teck, The Crab Flower Club, was inspired and produced based on poems in Cao Xue Qin’s masterpiece, Dreams of the Red Chamber.
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