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Early stages
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 23/06/2016
» Although this coming weekend is not the second Saturday of January, it does feel like Children's Day. In fact, it's more like Children's Week, because until next Sunday, the capital is holding its first-ever Bangkok International Children's Theatre Festival (BICT 2016).
For your new eyes only
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 30/10/2015
» From stage plays, contemporary dance, pantomime and lakhon chatri (traditional Thai folk dance-drama), to many other genres of performing arts, the 13th edition of Bangkok Theatre Festival returns under the theme "New View, New Eyes" on Tuesday until Nov 15.
Stage whispers
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 27/05/2015
» The artistic career of Thanapol Virulhakul, director of the critically acclaimed contemporary dance performance Hipster The King, is a work-in-progress. It started out with a thesis project at Thammasat University's Faculty of Journalism and Mass Communication, in which he made Buddhist amulets out of chocolate, sold them on the street and filmed reactions of passers-by and amulet experts.
And the award goes to...
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 26/02/2015
» The city’s most innovative plays and performances were celebrated on Tuesday night at the third edition of 2014 IATC Thailand Dance and Theatre Review awards at Bangkok Art and Culture Centre.
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.
Bambi gets sexy
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 11/09/2014
» In more than one way, ongoing performance The Last Schomburgk’s Deer at Crescent Moon Space is starkly raw and honest pornography.
The human zoo
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 04/09/2014
» Director Saifah Tanthana’s new play The Last Schomburgk’s Deer takes the audience to a zoo. It’s a duo performance by Wachara Kanha and Vidura Amranand, who have the curious task of depicting human instinct and desire through the roles of the now-extinct male and female Schomburgk’s deer.
The foetus between us
Muse, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 09/08/2014
» Dancer Kittiphon Udomrattanakulchai has literally found her muse within herself. A few months into her pregnancy, she became amazed and inspired by how her body had developed to protect the baby in her womb. That sense of wonder has turned into A Fetus’ Dream, an ongoing butoh performance at Crescent Moon Theatre.
Theatre, actually
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 26/03/2014
» Being an actress is sometimes a swift pass to stardom. The spotlight, the red carpet, fame, feverish attention from the public — and of course a seemingly inexhaustible heap of money not only from acting but also for simply showing up at events or doing TV commercials.
All the world's a stage
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 30/10/2013
» Plays, musicals, contemporary dance, pantomime, physical and experimental theatre, performing acts for children and families _ you name it _ the Bangkok Theatre Festival returns for the 11th year this Saturday, highlighting the city's small yet thriving scene.