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From clam to crab governments
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 14/12/2015
» From the Tanin Kraivixien government following the massacre of Oct 6, 1976, the premiership of Gen Prem Tinsulanonda in the 80s, the post-economic crisis time of Chuan Leekpai up to the politically turbulent times of Thaksin Shinawatra, Abhisit Vejjajiva and Yingluck Shinawatra -- few have witnessed the history of Thai contemporary politics as closely as Somlak Songsamphant.
Bringing absurd life to the stage
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 11/09/2014
» While performances like I Didn't Launch A Thousand Ships and The Last Schomburgk's Deer are still on at Pridi Banomyong Institute, a new theatre project "Three Short Absurd Plays" at Thonglor Art Space, continues to place Thong Lor as one of the most vibrant (though still in a small-scale) theatre scenes in the capital.
Needling thailand's looters
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 20/11/2013
» Jakkai Siributr's latest exhibition, "Plunder", at Yavuz Fine Art in Singapore, is in a sense a haunted house. A political one, that is, with 39 Thai civil servant uniforms hanging lifelessly all over the room, and each has, in varying places, the familiar face of a Thai politician roughly embroidered on.