Thoughts

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  [Review] Thus Have I Heard — Holding on to the Unbearable: A Contemporary Lens on Nanyin’s Ancient Dis/Resonance

  3 Nov 2024 It is what we cannot bear to let go of that defines us, than what we cannot do without. This sentiment...
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  [Review] Who are we fooling but ourselves? - When cloud catches colours by Drama Box

  31 Mar 2023 In the morning, I killed a spider. It was an all-white spider –– looking quite like an albino aphid. I didn't...
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  [Review] Parenthood™️ and Other Rites of Passage — The Fourth Trimester

  15 Oct 2022 It should be noted that the authors of this review have no experience with having children, and one of them...
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  [Review] Pulau Ujong — An Island at the End?

  2 Oct 2022 “There is no denying the fact: the climate crisis is here, and it is real.” So opens Ivan Heng, the Founding...
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  [Review] Selected Verses from in within over under beneath Therapy

  17 Sep 2022 I realised that as much as I wanted to think about my response, the truth of my own personal response and how I truly wanted to respond to it did not lie in structure, in grammar, in the logic of how words and sentences flowed.
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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...