A review of Singtheatre’s production of Jacques Brel is Alive and Well in Paris

Amos Toh reviews The King Lear Project, staged at the Drama Centre as part of the Singapore Arts Festival in Jun 2008.

Amos Toh reviews Circus, which staged at The Substation last April.

Ng Yi-Sheng reviews the April TheatreWorks production, Dance Dance Dance, directed by Choy Ka Fai.

Richard Lord reviews two productions: ACSian Theatre’s adaptation of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice; and Wessex Theatre’s Shakespeare in Love.

Richard Lord reviews the Stage Club production of Black Comedy by Peter Shaffer.

Richard Lord reviews the Young and W!ld production of Caryl Churchill’s play, Mad Forest.

What is unconscionable about Ng Yi-Sheng’s play, 251, is the treatment of its titular subject, pornstar Annabel Chong. The sense I got when I watched the show was that Annabel Chong functioned solely as a pretext to a campily conceived rant against the perceived flaws of Singaporean society.

Singapore theatre has become conservative in an age of commercial success, relying on revivals, imports and sensationalism to sell our tickets. Enter Ho Tzu Nyen and Fran Borgia — instead of yet another dramatic rendition of a Shakespearean classic, they ask, why not attempt a staging of a critical essay of a play?

Projek Suitcase 2006: Police + Thief
by Teater Ekamatra
23 - 25 March 2006, 8pm
The Substation Theatre
Teater Ekamatra’s latest production Police + Thief is a doublebill of scathing and scatological, social critique of the underlying madness beneath our everyday lives on this island we call home. With the general elections around the bend, Police + Thief perhaps acquires added significance …