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Art of Precarity
Life, Amitha Amranand, Published on 13/10/2022
» What is the possibility of art in a precarious and even dangerous environment? The answer could be found everywhere at documenta fifteen.
Laughing through the grieving process
Life, Amitha Amranand, Published on 04/05/2017
» Before the house opened on Saturday night, Culture Collective Studio founder Loni Berry told the audience that although the play we were about to see, David Lindsay-Abaire's Pulitzer Prize-winning Rabbit Hole, revolved around the death of a four-year-old boy, it was all right to laugh from time to time. And laugh we did.
Interpreting the Oct 6 atrocity
Life, Amitha Amranand, Published on 22/09/2016
» Theatre artists continue their commemorations of the upcoming 40th anniversary of the Oct 6, 1976, Thammasat University massacre. Last week, B-Floor Theatre director Teerawat Mulvilai rolled out Fundamental, another powerful dance theatre production that brings the shocking images captured by Neal Ulevich to life and into the present.
What it is to be human
Life, Amitha Amranand, Published on 27/08/2015
» For some of us, many of us even, a future in which we exist alongside robots so advanced they seem to have a mind of their own and bear a cunning resemblance to humans is a scenario that resides only in the realm of the imagination -- a stuff of entertainment, an overexploited narrative.
Freedom of the stage
Life, Amitha Amranand, Published on 22/05/2015
» Ornanong ThaisriwongPerformer, director | B-Floor TheatreRecent work: Bang La MerdUp next: See Wan Nai Deun Kanya (Four Days In September)
Ladies, lies and languages
Life, Amitha Amranand, Published on 09/04/2015
» A pair of screeching nang itcha (female antagonists, literally "jealous women"); a beauty pageant full of eccentric, barely literate contestants; one ballad after another; and a romantic Pretty Woman-like ending.
Best of 2014
Life, Amitha Amranand, Published on 29/12/2014
» Theatregoers have never been this busy. But more importantly, theatre artists are defying censorship and categorisation. Here are my top picks of this year.
Playing with roles
Life, Amitha Amranand, Published on 04/12/2014
» Two plays and a dance opened in Bangkok last Thursday. All three of which required their performers to play multiple roles.
Gruesome torture relived with both barrels
Life, Amitha Amranand, Published on 06/11/2014
» Almost right after I watched Teerawat "Kage" Mulvilai's solo performance Satapana: Iceberg, I came across Chinese artist Liu Bolin's Hiding In The City performance/photographic series in a book entitled Liu Bolin.
Lesbians, makeovers and Barbie dolls
Life, Amitha Amranand, Published on 31/07/2014
» The first "Take Off Festival" drew to a close last weekend. Designed as a platform for new graduates to present their work in a professional context for the first time, the festival featured five small-scale productions over four weekends in July at the Spark School of Dramatic Arts. The programme was commendable for its relevance and diversity in genre and subject matter.