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about 17 months ago (11/16/2022)
Chair Stories | ArtsEquator Skip to content In this visual essay, puppet maker and designer Daniel Sim, begins with a set of rejected stage chairs, and ends up on a lyrical journey through Singapore's theatre history...
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about 19 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 24 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 25 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 31 months ago (09/20/2021)
The working processes of artists: Sonia Kwek | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Viewpoints September 20, 2021 “Probably your body is the one space you can be the most autonomous still”, says artist and performer Sonia Kwek...
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about 33 months ago (08/19/2021)
Dear Waterloo Street, From An Emerging Arts Manager | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Viewpoints Ho Shu En August 20, 2021 Text and illustrations by Ho Shu En (1,600 words, 4-minute read) Waterloo Street is for me, a place of beginnings...
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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 (07/02/2021)
Podcast 92: Critics Live: OIWA by The Finger Players at SIFA 2021 | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Viewpoints Arts House Limited July 3, 2021 Critics Alice Saville (UK), Amitha Amranand (TH), Matthew Lyon (SG) and Taisuke Shimanuki (JP) discuss OIWA: The Ghost of Yotsuya by The Finger Players, presented at Singapore International Festival of the Arts (SIFA)...
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about 34 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 38 months ago (03/03/2021)
ArtsEquator’s Hot List: March 2021 | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Viewpoints March 3, 2021 Every first Wednesday of the month, ArtsEquator releases our editor’s picks of shows/events/programmes that our readers can look out for in that month...
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about 39 months ago (02/16/2021)
Cakap-Cakap: Interview with Charlinda Pereira and Rebekah Sangeetha Dorai for subTITLED 1.0 | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles February 16, 2021 ArtsEquator chats with producer and production stage manager, Charlinda Pereira and actress, Rebekah Sangeetha Dorai about their upcoming work subTITLED 1.0 by Bridging The Gap (BTG)...
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about 41 months ago (12/14/2020)
Podcast 85: Singapore Theatre, Year in Review | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Viewpoints December 14, 2020 In our end-of-year roundup, Nabilah Said, Naeem Kapadia and Matt Lyon take stock of the year in Singapore theatre, alongside guests Lee Shu Yu from Centre 42 and Max Yam from Arts Republic...
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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 41 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 41 months ago (11/23/2020)
(Episode 2) What's in a Scene - Nothing by Cake | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles November 23, 2020 ‘We are all but moving shadows and all our busy rushing ends up in nothing’ In this episode, Natalie Hennedige and Siti Khalijah Zainal unpack a scene from Cake ‘s Nothing and talk about the process and the inspiration behind the creation of the play, from the characters to multimedia design and more...
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about 42 months ago (11/16/2020)
(Episode 1) What's in a Scene - 《大狗民》Citizen Dog by The Finger Players | ArtsEquator Skip to content In this episode, Liu Xiaoyi and Oliver Chong unpack a scene from The Finger Players 十指帮 ‘s 《大狗民》Citizen Dog and talk about the set design, costume design and more...
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about 46 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 48 months ago (05/06/2020)
Ong Keng Sen: Pushing the conversation | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles Patricia Bateira May 6, 2020 Theatre stalwart Ong Keng Sen returns to helm Singapore theatre company TheatreWorks, after being away for a decade to complete his PhD in Performance Studies at Tisch School of the Arts in New York...
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about 51 months ago (02/26/2020)
Podcast 76: The Runaway Company | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles Michael Chow February 27, 2020 Duration: 30 min Nabilah Said speaks to Izzul Irfan and Mahirah Abdul Latiff of The Runaway Company about structures, succession and misconceptions about their work...
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about 52 months ago (12/31/2019)
The top ArtsEquator articles of 2019 | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles Photo courtesy of Akanga Film Asia & Philipp Aldrup Photography December 31, 2019 Here’s a list of the top 10 ArtsEquator articles in 2019: Enter Stage Right: Tay Tong by Art sEquator “It is amazing how one’s identity is so associated with one’s job...
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about 53 months ago (12/26/2019)
Podcast 72: ArtsEquator End-of-Year Theatre Podcast 2019 | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles December 27, 2019 Matt Lyon, Naeem Kapadia, Kathy Rowland and Nabilah Said discuss their top picks for theatre in 2019...
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about 54 months ago (11/13/2019)
Podcast 68: Critics Live! Wild Rice's Merdeka | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles Rueyloon from Wild Rice November 13, 2019 Theatre critics Corrie Tan, Nabilah Said, Carolyn Oei and Kathy Rowland discuss the recent production of WILD RICE’s Merdeka / 獨立 /சுதந்திரம் , in a critics-led post-show conversation held in front of an audience on 19 October 2019 at WILD RICE’s Ngee Ann Kongsi Theatre...
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about 55 months ago (10/04/2019)
Say No To Droogs: Teater Ekamatra's "A Clockwork Orange" | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles Monospectrum Photography October 5, 2019 By Faezah Zulkifli (1,020 words, 4-minute read) “ORANG_” The wordplay in Teater Ekamatra’s A Clockwork Orange is no accident...
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about 56 months ago (09/13/2019)
Diasporic Dispatches: "The Cardboard Kitchen Project" by FK Co-Lab | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles Courtesy of FK Co-Lab September 14, 2019 By Rebecca Goh (977 words, 6-minute read) We step into the dimly-lit theatre of The Lion & Unicorn , a soft, almost dream-like blue wash over the noticeable emptiness of the stage – save for a skeletal cardboard cut-out resembling a door frame, carefully set stage left...
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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 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...