Thoughts

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  [Review] Backstage Protocol — Visible Labour, Invisible Lessons: The Stage as Self-Reflection Negotiating the Cycle of Expressing, Experiencing, Portraying, Reflection and Making

  10 May 2026 The grad show peels back the curtain to reveal backstage labour. It peels back theatrical training itself, making students examine how they learned to perform and make theatre. The show becomes theatre reflecting on theatre — a loop, mirror, recursion, self-exposure.
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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...