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about 20 months ago (08/09/2022)
A Response to ‘Every Thought I’ve Ever Had: Contemplating the Origin of the Sun’ | ArtsEquator Skip to content Veteran playwright Leow Puay Tin is intrigued by the methods used by a trio of young performance makers to sustain a 12-hour performance...
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about 21 months ago (07/21/2022)
Contemporary Moves In Modern Singaporean Tamil Theatre | ArtsEquator Skip to content Hemang Yadav was involved in a recent development program, Tunjuk Arah/ Iyakkunar, for Malay and Indian theatre directors in Singapore...
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about 23 months ago (05/24/2022)
Podcast 104: Tartuffe: The Imposter | ArtsEquator Skip to content Critics Matthew Lyon, Nabilah Said and Naeem Kapadia discuss Wild Rice's bold adaptation of Tartuffe: The Imposter by Molière in the latest ArtsEquator Theatre Podcast...
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about 25 months ago (03/25/2022)
WINDOW by ATTEMPTS: A click away | ArtsEquator Skip to content "You walk into a black room...
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about 26 months ago (03/02/2022)
WINDOW by ATTEMPTS: A click away | ArtsEquator Skip to content Who is SARA? Cheryl: There’s a SARA that me and Rei talked about, when we were just bouncing ideas...
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about 26 months ago (03/02/2022)
WINDOW by ATTEMPTS: A click away | ArtsEquator Skip to content How does the folder game work? I’ve never played it before...
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about 33 months ago (08/03/2021)
Fragments of History: Loc Vang, the Yellow music singer from Hanoi | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Viewpoints Nguyen Dinh Toan August 3, 2021 By Duong Nguyen Thuy (800 words, 3-minute read) It was perhaps the melancholy of history that was the most palpable presence in the livestream action Fragments of History , which I organised as part of Mekong Cultural Hub’s Mini-Meeting Point held on 17 July 2021...
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about 41 months ago (12/10/2020)
Year In Review: Tracing SG Theatre Together | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Viewpoints December 10, 2020 ArtsEquator and Centre 42 jointly co-present the fourth edition of Year in Review, an annual discussion and round-up of the performing arts in Singapore...
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about 43 months ago (10/16/2020)
Year-end SIFA Spotlight: 5 things you should catch | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Viewpoints Image: Maria Baranova October 16, 2020 The unabashedly virtual edition of SIFA just launched its slate of year-end programmes, marked by dreamy and lush audioscapes, compelling narratives, and encounters with the audience in places both personal and private...
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about 43 months ago (10/13/2020)
10 Things You Didn't Know About Dikir Barat | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles Joy Ho / Jawn October 13, 2020 Most Singaporeans recognise traditional artforms such as Bharatanatyam, wayang kulit and wushu...
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about 43 months ago (10/11/2020)
Bird is the word: Peepbird by The Finger Players | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Viewpoints Tuckys Photography October 11, 2020 By Nabilah Said (950 words, 4-minute read) If hope is a thing with feathers, then Peepbird , a 60-minute-long non-verbal show, would be it...
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about 45 months ago (07/23/2020)
Podcast 80: Murder at Mandai Camp And Fat Kids | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Viewpoints Courtesy of How Drama and Sight Lines Entertainment July 23, 2020 As ArtsEquator’s theatre podcast returns since the start of the pandemic, Nabilah Said, Matthew Lyon and Naeem Kapadia appropriately discuss two recent Singapore productions created for digital platform Zoom – Murder at Mandai Camp by Sight Lines Entertainment and Fat Kids Are Harder to Kidnap on Zoom by How Drama ...
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about 50 months ago (02/29/2020)
Are You Ready To Take The Law Into Your Own Hands: Tongue Scrapes Against Cheek | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles Sarah Walker February 29, 2020 The following review is made possible through a Critical Residency programme supported by By Nabilah Said (670 words, 5-minute read) I watched Are You Ready To Take The Law Into Your Own Hands by Sipat Lawin and Friends on 26 February 2020, 34 years almost to the day of the People Power Revolution, which toppled the Marcos government in the Philippines after decades of corruption and totalitarian control and ushered in the age of Corazon Aquino as the new president...
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about 53 months ago (12/14/2019)
Chain reaction: Lie With Me by Intercultural Theatre Institute | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles Bernie Ng December 14, 2019 By Kathy Rowland (1,014 words, 6-minute read) ITI’s graduation production, Lie With Me is filled with broken characters, caught in capsules of emotional decrepitude...
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about 55 months ago (10/14/2019)
CRITICS LIVE: A post-show response to "Merdeka" | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles October 14, 2019 Join critics Corrie Tan, Nabilah Said, Carolyn Oei and Teo Xiao Ting in a post-show conversation about W!ld Rice’s Merdeka ...
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about 56 months ago (09/05/2019)
Love me tender: "Eat Duck" by Checkpoint Theatre | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles Photo: Crispian Chan September 5, 2019 By Nabilah Said (1,119 words, 6-minute read) There is a Malay proverb: “sedangkan lidah lagi tergigit”, that roughly translates as “even the tongue can get bitten”...
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about 56 months ago (09/01/2019)
Podcast 64: The Orange Production 2019 | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Viewpoints Gabriel Chia September 1, 2019 Duration: 37 min In this latest podcast, ArtsEquator editor Nabilah Said and theatre reviewer Naeem Kapadia discuss the productions We Were So Hopeful Then (written by Ellison Tan and directed by Alvin Tan) and Acting Mad (with texts by Haresh Sharma, Harris Albar and Maryam Noorhimli and directed by Haresh Sharma), presented as part of The Orange Production 2019 by The Necessary Stage...
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about 56 months ago (08/28/2019)
Instructions for reheating: “Forked” by The Finger Players | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Viewpoints August 28, 2019 By Nabilah Said (820 words, 5-minute read) In the pre-show for Forked , playwright and performer Jo Tan is warming up, prepping her body...
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about 57 months ago (08/02/2019)
The working processes of artists: .gif | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles August 2, 2019 In this video, indie-electronic duo .gif, made up of Nurudin Sadali and Chew Wei Shan or Weish, are interviewed by LASALLE students Narrel Wisaksono and Aqid Aiman...
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about 61 months ago (04/05/2019)
"Gold Rain and Hailstones": There and Back Again | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles Wong Horng Yih April 5, 2019 By Carmen Nge (1593 words, six-minute read) It was a Wednesday night and DPAC was packed...
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about 63 months ago (02/22/2019)
Pain and Cauterisation in "Off Centre" | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles Tuckys Photography Saloma (Sakinah Dollah) and Vinod (Abdulatiff Abdullah) February 22, 2019 By Casidhe Ng (1, 543 words, eight-minute read) When the play ends (although it never really ends), Saloma sits on stage, alone, even after the house lights have been turned back on, with a look of uncertainty and shock plastered across her face...
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about 63 months ago (02/04/2019)
Experiencing the Ebb and Flow of “yesterday it rained salt” | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles Mark Benedict Cheong February 4, 2019 By Casidhe Ng (1,068 words, five-minute read) In yesterday it rained salt , we are always surrounded by the acoustics of the sea...
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about 64 months ago (01/21/2019)
"Jogging" To Survive: Hanane Hajj Ali at M1 Singapore Fringe Festival 2019 | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles Marwan Tahtah January 21, 2019 By Stephanie Burridge (800 words, four-minute read) Metaphors abound in this complex work about living, loving and surviving...
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about 64 months ago (01/01/2019)
Film Review: Ten Years Thailand (via New Mandala) | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Radar January 1, 2019 “Will it still be customary for movie-goers to stand for the royal anthem ten years from now?” I wonder, as the familiar ritual compels me to my feet before the start of the feature...
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about 65 months ago (12/06/2018)
“Teater Normcore: Stereo Genmai” dan Pengkarya yang Bertengkar dengan Idea | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles Moka Mocha Ink December 6, 2018 Oleh Azrin Fauzi (1640 patah kata, 9-minit bacaan) Dan pertengkaran ini berlaku di dalam ruang yang meyakinkan...
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about 65 months ago (12/03/2018)
"Southernmost": The Politics of Nowhereness | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles December 3, 2018 By Felipe Cervera (1400 words, six-minute read) Be future-ready: that seems to be one of the maxims of this country...
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about 66 months ago (11/27/2018)
“Guards at the Taj”: The Bloody Brushstrokes of Beauty | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles Photo: Singapore Repertory Theatre November 27, 2018 By Naeem Kapadia (885 words, four-minute read) First there’s its scale – with its magnificent marble dome, soaring pillars and lush surrounding gardens...
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about 66 months ago (11/04/2018)
Foolishness and Enlightenment in “Lear is Dead” | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles November 5, 2018 By Casidhe Ng (1,200 words, six-minute read) “You are a madman, and we are but fools,” the ensemble resounds...
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about 68 months ago (09/10/2018)
Cambodian FB users rage over dance ownership (via The Nation) | ArtsEquator Skip to content August 31, 2018 18:20 United Nations’ cultural agency Unesco’s Facebook page has hosted a heated debate between Cambodians and Thais over Bangkok’s proposal for the inclusion of “khon” masked dance on the agency’s Intangible Cultural Heritage list...
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about 68 months ago (08/30/2018)
La Cie Maxmind's “Isle of Dreams”: The Dark Fantastic | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles Thum CC August 31, 2018 By Akanksha Raja (620 words, four-minute read) 拾念劇集 La Cie Maxmind’s Isle of Dreams ( 蓬萊) was the headlining event for the George Town Festival’s Taiwan-focused showcase this year...