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Memories stained with Rouge
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 15/10/2015
» This year marks the 40th anniversary of the beginning of the Khmer Rouge regime's four-year massacre that resulted in nearly 2 million Cambodian deaths.
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Recalling Thailand's darkest hour
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 15/09/2016
» Next month marks the 40th anniversary of the Oct 6, 1976, event, or Thammasat University Massacre -- a tragedy in which arguably more than 100 students were killed by Thai state forces and far-right paramilitaries, and in commemoration of that, critically-acclaimed director and choreographer Teerawat Mulvilai of B-Floor Theatre presents his latest performance Fundamental which is running at the Bangkok Art and Culture Centre.
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Dark laughter
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 16/10/2014
» Director and playwright Nophand Boonyai once saw a random photo of four Japanese girls staring dead-faced at the camera. He pondered as to how they had got that look in their eyes and then heard the song I Only Have Eyes For You. He suddenly had a vision of Earth, seen from outer space: there was a dead body lying still, pale white in the moonlight.
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Protest, die, repeat?
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 18/05/2016
» Sunday marks the second anniversary of the 2014 military takeover, the second coup d'etat in Thailand in a decade and the 12th successful one since absolute monarchy was overthrown in 1932. And three months from now, in August, the highly controversial charter referendum will take place.
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Mixed media
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 26/08/2015
» Photo Bangkok 2015 continues in galleries throughout the capital. It seems, however, that the festival will have to wait until “Weatherproof” at WTF Gallery and “Rediscovering Forgotten Thai Masters Of Photography” at Bangkok University Gallery open in September before it’s back in the spotlight again.
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Making connections, not cash
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 21/01/2015
» Artist Pisitakun Kuantalaeng, 28, was once a Yellow Shirt. In less than a decade, Pisitakun went from a fervent supporter of anti-Thaksin politics and airport seizures to an artist who took to the streets after the junta seized power last May.
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A reflective stage
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 05/11/2014
» As per tradition, this year's Bangkok Theatre Festival kicked off last weekend at Santi Chaiprakan Park in Bang Lamphu, with a packed two-day programme. The Bangkok Art and Culture Centre (BACC), however, is the main arena for this year's event, and will host a wide range of shows, from musicals and movement-based performances to pantomime and puppetry, for the next two weeks.
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Playing it bare
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 27/11/2014
» Since the moment director Napak Tricharoendej chose Jean Genet’s The Maids to study in her university acting class, she has been fascinated by the play’s humour and dimensions and how the dysfunctional characters did not seem to drive the story on.
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The Physicists defies gravity
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 05/06/2014
» Nothing about The Physicists seemed promising. The play, an adaptation of Friedrich Dürrenmatt’s Die Physiker, was staged at GOJA Gallery Café in Phra Kanong and finished its run last Monday. There is an obvious reason for it not being staged in a proper theatre — the place is but a small two-block gallery where actors ran outside when they finished their parts while those who were yet to come out were hiding in a tiny bathroom. The light and sound control team took over the barista’s area. Seats for the audience were awkwardly arranged around the room as leaning on the wall was not advised after some art on display fell and one of the audience members had to pay for it. All this, personally, didn’t bode well for either the quality or the seriousness of the production. But I was quite wrong.
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Shantytown saviour
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 30/04/2014
» Akihiro Tomikawa exudes a faint air of sadness and one’s first impression on meeting him is that melancholy is a semi-permanent state for this self-made Japanese businessman — a sort of default mode. The 45-year-old appears reluctant to talk about his past, not surprisingly, perhaps, for someone who has so many unhappy memories to suppress. As a boy, he was frequently beaten by his stepfather, driving him to seriously consider suicide and to look back on his childhood as a lonely period when his existence was more like that of a waif — a “stray kid”, as he puts it — than a cherished member of a family unit.
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