“Still Life” by Checkpoint Theatre: Art Recreates A Life
about 62 months ago (03/26/2019)
"Still Life" by Checkpoint Theatre: Art Recreates A Life | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles Mark Teo Photo courtesy of Checkpoint Theatre. March 27, 2019 By Soumya Varma (900 words, four-minute read) In today’s world of Instagram, blogs, vlogs and reality TV where we gaze at other people’s lives, autobiographical theatre is unique for the intimacy created between the actors and the audience as they watch the life being lived, re-lived and rediscovered. As Grace Sherrill rightly states “In the live theatre of AutoBiography, truth claims the function of memory, the distinctions between fiction and non-fiction, and the creating, re-creating, or discovery of self acquire an urgency and immediacy, a capacity to engage or confront, that are unique to theatre and difficult, if not impossible, to realise in any other auto/biographical medium or genre.” [1] Dana Lam’s “Still Life” is one such performance.