Thoughts

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  [Review] Terror Made Us Cruel – Assembly by Drama Box

  30 Jul 2022 “Paint ghosts over everything, the sadness of everything. We made ourselves cold. We made ourselves snow. We smuggled ourselves into...
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  [Review] Asylum — These Ties That Bind

  1 Jun 2022 Asylum very nearly presented itself as yet another dystopian, apocalyptic Netflix-ish story that involves the ubiquitous threat of zombies and a rampant disease that spreads across the population, killing everyone in sight. Indeed, a literal zombie-like figure appears towards the end of the show...
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  【剧评】解密美术馆：遗失的百合 | 持续前进的数位跨域连结

  26 Apr 2022 继2021年六月推出的《她门的秘密》，新加坡实践剧场持续精进他们的数位展演实验，新作《解密美术馆：遗失的百合》与新加坡国家美术馆合作，强化解谜的部分，在两周演出期间，以三章节推进观演参与。
  
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  [Review] The Abducted Justice in Accidental Death of an Anarchist

  3 Jan 2022 Accidental Death of an Anarchist ends by giving the audience a (pseudo) choice: to save oneself but risk being perceived as an accomplice to the anarchistic rebels, or to empathise with the corrupt police officers and save them from the bomb explosion.
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  [Review] The Bride Always Knocks Twice — Killer Secrets: The Locked Island Country and the Window of the World

  1 Jul 2021 Inspired by The Bride Always Knocks Twice in 2013, director Kuo Jian Hong and playwrights Jonathan Lim and Liu Xiaoyi...
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  【剧评】她门的秘密：岛国密室与世界之窗

  30 Jun 2021 本文将提出「密室中的世界之窗」概念，尝试阐述《她门的秘密》在疫情时代下，三个有关「窗户」的层次：剧本内部的国家之窗、跨平台的线上媒介之窗、跨社群连线结盟的外交之窗。
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  [Review] Checking into a new medium

  9 May 2021 I must say I was quite surprised to receive a hardcopy literature from Checkpoint Theatre. I thought, is this a...
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  [Review] RevoLOOtion - Walk alone so it’s faster, or walk together so we can go further?

  2 May 2021 Directed by Li Xie, Intercultural Theatre Institute presents RevoLOOtion, an original production-cum-workshop that tackles questions of oppression, protest and community. Coming...
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  [Review] A Conversation about Being Physically Present in #THEATRE

  10 Feb 2021 INDEX, a design collective comprising Lim Wei Ling (spatial designer), Lim Woan Wen (lighting designer) and Darren Ng (sound artist/music composer), presented...
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  [Review] ThisConnect: Threading Worlds - What It's Like To Be Authentically You

  25 Sep 2020 Every 40 seconds, we lose a person to suicide globally. What if we’re able to create an environment that allows...
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  [Review] On hindsight - months after watching Kai’s Posing Questions

  7 Sep 2020 Learning how to sketch and read bodies in Eng Kai Er's (Kai) Posing Questions is almost akin to my journey in...
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  Reconnecting with our seniors with vernacular radios during the COVID-19 pandemic in Singapore

  3 Sep 2020 How does a nation revive a language? How does a nation retrieve its lost narratives? How does a nation socially integrate its ageing population?
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  非必要艺术散记：呼吸之光@逗号空间

  23 Aug 2020 当我们走进去的时候，除了墙上投射的光圈，以及房间角落微明的灯箱之外，是完全的黑暗。水滴从空中落下，通过手电筒和地面的反射，动态地投射在墙上。在我们找地方坐下后，艺术家很随意的谈了...
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  Fighting COVID-19: Support from + for Artists

  8 Apr 2020 We're experiencing an unprecedented global crisis, probably the biggest of our time. As I sit at home, sinking into thoughts of existentialism, pondering on the state of the arts and...
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  [Review] 4.48 Psychosis - Harrowing, Haunting, Unshakeable

  18 Mar 2020 In another successful theatre adaptation, the Intercultural Theatre Institute brings Sarah Kane’s 4.48 Psychosis to the Singaporean stage. Kane’s play, first performed in...
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  [Review] The Son - Predictable Plot, Powerful Execution

  7 Mar 2020 The Son is a play that fully embraces its difficult subject matter. It doesn’t shy away from the pain and...