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about 18 months ago (11/10/2022)
Make Hantus Great Again: Breaking Bread With the Undead | ArtsEquator Skip to content "Make Hantus Great Again", Teatre Ekamatra's latest production, combines kooky supernatural characters with social commentary this Halloween...
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about 20 months ago (09/15/2022)
Berak: Letting it Go | ArtsEquator Skip to content Naeem Kapadia reviews ‘Berak' by Singapore's Teater Ekamatra and comes away moved by the sensitive trancreation of the original play by Chong Tze Chien...
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about 20 months ago (08/30/2022)
Reconsidering the Commandments with Wild Rice’s Animal Farm (2022) | ArtsEquator Skip to content In Wild Rice’s restaging of Animal Farm, Rebecca G finds a production that leavens the darker aspects of the text by drawing out the absurdities of the narrative...
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about 21 months ago (08/24/2022)
Podcast 106: Boom | ArtsEquator Skip to content In our latest podcast, we discuss Boom, a production by A Mirage which took place on 1-20 July 2022...
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about 22 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 22 months ago (07/04/2022)
“What if we do it this way?”: Imagining new Possibilities with Producers SG | ArtsEquator Skip to content With change and transformation being an agenda for the past two years, we talk to Producers SG and uncover how they plan to accommodate the shifts in the art world...
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about 24 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 (04/21/2022)
Podcast 103: The Glass Menagerie | ArtsEquator Skip to content In this latest ArtsEquator Theatre Podcast, Matthew Lyon, Nabilah Said and Naeem Kapadia discuss the recent production The Glass Menagerie , written by Tennessee Williams and presented by Pangdemonium...
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about 26 months ago (03/24/2022)
Schooled by Singapore Youth Theatre: Teens Tell It Like It Is | ArtsEquator Skip to content Azura Farid reviews Schooled , the play about the concerns of young people devised by the inaugural batch of the Singapore Youth Theatre ensemble, Wild Rice's educational programme for youths aged 13-17 years old...
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about 26 months ago (03/17/2022)
Podcast 102: CITRUS Practices & Library of Care | ArtsEquator Skip to content Adib Kosnan chats with arts practitioners Corrie Tan, Elizabeth Chan and Chong Gua Khee, who are members of CITRUS practices...
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about 26 months ago (03/14/2022)
Empathy is of the essence: Order On The Go by Erwin Shah Ismail | ArtsEquator Skip to content Singaporean performer and playwright Erwin Shah Ismail shares stories of food delivery riders in the promenade theatre piece, Order On The Go, which will see audiences moving around Kampong Gelam...
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about 28 months ago (01/07/2022)
The Secret Life Of Haw Par Villa: How tours are bringing the arts to life | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Viewpoints January 8, 2022 By Dia Hakim K (1,270 words, 4-minute read) Ever since the pandemic hit, the notion of travel in Singapore has manifested in a variety of forms...
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about 29 months ago (12/24/2021)
Re Somma and Tamil Theatre in Singapore | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Viewpoints Agam Theatre Lab December 24, 2021 By Vithya Subramaniam, in conversation with Karthikeyan Somasundaram (2,330 words, 8-minute read) Why stage a piece about, and play your own father? What is Tamil Theatre in Singapore? And did Karthik really need to put on a full face of paint just for that one 12-minute scene?...
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about 29 months ago (12/17/2021)
Year In Review 2021: Singapore Theatre in Statistics | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Viewpoints December 17, 2021 Where did 2021 go? As part of our annual event Year In Review 2021 , statistics about 2021 shows were gathered, including those postponed or cancelled...
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about 31 months ago (10/20/2021)
Reframing The Mental Health Discourse ‘With Time’ | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Viewpoints Courtesy of Zinkie Aw and Drama Box October 20, 2021 By Isaac Tan (1,262 words, 4-minute read) CW: Mentions of issues about mental health and suicide...
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about 33 months ago (08/31/2021)
Bedside Banter: Cyril & Michael by Bridging the Gap Collective | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Viewpoints Bernie Ng August 31, 2021 By Naeem Kapadia (800 words, 2-minute read) Two strangers meet on gay dating app Grindr and share an encounter in a hotel room...
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about 34 months ago (07/29/2021)
The frenemy’s handshake: The Singapore Trilogy as political theatre | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Viewpoints The Second Breakfast Company July 29, 2021 By Clarissa Oon (2,650 words, 8-minute read) My phone vibrated one night, with a notification that Singapore political party Workers’ Party (WP) was premiering a live video on Instagram...
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about 34 months ago (07/18/2021)
Podcast 94: The Singapore Trilogy by The Second Breakfast Company | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Viewpoints The Second Breakfast Company July 19, 2021 In the episode of the ArtsEquator theatre podcast, Nabilah Said, Matthew Lyon and Naeem Kapadia discuss The Singapore Trilogy by The Second Breakfast Company, which ran from March 11 to March 21 2021...
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about 34 months ago (07/17/2021)
Podcast 93: Girls & Boys by Pangdemonium | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Viewpoints Pangdemonium July 18, 2021 In the episode of the ArtsEquator theatre podcast, Nabilah Said, Matthew Lyon and Naeem Kapadia discuss Girls & Boys by Pangdemonium, which ran from 25 Feb to 14 Mar 2021...
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about 35 months ago (06/28/2021)
End of an epic journey: A Dream Under the Southern Bough: Existence | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Viewpoints CRISPI June 28, 2021 By Jocelyn Chng (1,180 words, 4-minute read) Existence is the third instalment in the Southern Bough series commissioned by Singapore International Festival of Arts (SIFA)...
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about 37 months ago (04/14/2021)
Model Citizens: Pursuit of happiness, prosperity and progress | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Viewpoints Tuckys Photography April 14, 2021 By Naive Gascon (1,215 words, 4-minute read) Note: This review contains some spoilers...
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about 37 months ago (04/09/2021)
The Sound Inside: Duet of life and loss | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Viewpoints April 9, 2021 By Leia Devadason (772 words, 3-minute read) Filled to the brim at 25% capacity, Singapore Repertory Theatre’s Robertson Quay theatre was cold...
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about 39 months ago (02/16/2021)
A predestined fate: Nine Years Theatre’s Oedipus | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles February 16, 2021 By Patricia Tobin (665 words, 4-minute read) The story of Oedipus is undoubtedly known to all...
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about 42 months ago (11/30/2020)
(Episode 3) What's in a Scene - Cerita Cinta by akulah BIMBO SAKTI | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Viewpoints November 30, 2020 In this last episode of What’s in a Scene, Noor Effendy Ibrahim and Dalifah Shahril break down a scene from Cerita Cinta (2018)...
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about 49 months ago (05/04/2020)
Theatre goes online: Call me a purist, I don’t care | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles May 4, 2020 By Fasyali Fadzly (2,100 words, 7-minute read) No one would have guessed that the COVID-19 situation would become this bad...
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about 50 months ago (03/27/2020)
World Theatre Day: Tribute to Singapore shows affected by COVID-19 | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Viewpoints Photo by Paul Green on Unsplash March 27, 2020 By ArtsEquator From 26 March 2020, 2359 hrs, all theatres in Singapore will go dark in response to COVID-19 measures...
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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 57 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 57 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...