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[Review] Four Four Eight - A Review is an Open Letter
25 Mar 2019 Dear L and Xiaoyi, This is your most accessible show to date. I like it more than Einstein or the Carpark....
[Review] A Disappearing Number - When More Is Less
24 Mar 2019 Even before the play starts, the audience are already grappling with the maths of finding their seats, amidst the rows...
[Review] Off Centre overwhelmed by nostalgia
20 Feb 2019 My first encounter with Off Centre is in 2015, during Esplanade’s The Studios: fifty, directed by Oliver Chong. Then, I...
[Review] Oliver Chong's Off Centre balances reality with surreality
19 Feb 2019 Just last week, Faith Ng’s play, Normal, made its curtain calls to optimistic reception. Normal, directed by Claire Wong, discussed...
[Review] You Can Reach The Sky - Never too young to be a director
11 Jan 2019 The performers use familiar items which can be easily found in most household. You will be surprised at how your babies, who may be unable to focus on an activity at home, are able to follow this 30-minute long play...
[Review] You Can Reach The Sky brings the stars down so that the children may touch it
10 Jan 2019 Light light. Fall down. It is my first time attending theatre with my sister; I am not sure how to prep...
[Review] The Old Woman and the Ox lacks a confluence of ideas
26 Nov 2018 Understandably, a newly written play can be a challenge to stage. The Old Woman and the Ox got too heavy...
Meeting Charlie was also seeing my inner self - A Reflection
24 Nov 2018 I am so happy that Charlie has an opportunity to be performed here. Otherwise I would never have known that...
Southernmost 2018 Physical Masterclass Students' Presentation - A Reflection
10 Nov 2018 Nget Rady and Didik Nini Thowok carry within them traditions of the Cambodian male masked dance form (Lakhaon Khaol) and...
[Review] Lear Is Dead lacks a two-way dialogue in response to the original script
4 Nov 2018 When the curtains opened (figuratively, because there were no curtains), I felt hopeful and excited about Nine Years Theatre’s (NYT)...
[Review] Framed by Adolf, framed by Chong, insinuates a post-truth regime
2 Jul 2018 There are many common qualities between last week’s Citizen Dog and this week’s Framed, by Adolf: The static noises used...
A response to the dramatised reading of Euginia Tan’s Habits
26 Jun 2018 Previously titled The Man In The Coffin, Habits is a play that attempts to explore faith and kinship under the...
A response to the dramatised reading of Jo Tan's Forked
24 Jun 2018 A monologue by Jo Tan herself is really what this play needs I suppose. I haven’t seen the previous iterations...
[Review] Citizen Dog — A twisted satire written in the image and spirit of Liao Zhai
18 Jun 2018 Citizen Dog is a dark and twisted fairy tale. Actually, it is just like any other Hans Christian Anderson’s or...
[Review] Citizen Dog recontextualised and modernised old themes from a classic literature
16 Jun 2018 This play is honestly such a trippy ride. Even a week later, we’re still not sure what to think. The cast...
[Review] Dragonflies focuses on climate change, adaptation and the survival of the fittest
9 Jun 2018 Dragonflies’ plot is a circle of life. The play starts with death, then a series of unfortunate events that takes...

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