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Where does a performance begin?
Life, Amitha Amranand, Published on 03/03/2020
» Where does a performance begin? This is the question I kept asking myself during TPAM Performing Arts Meeting in Yokohama this year.
Garden of dreams and delights
Life, Amitha Amranand, Published on 09/05/2019
» B-floor Theatre, Thailand's only physical theatre company, turns 20 this year. And they are marking the occasion with Shakespeare.
The trap of trust
Life, Amitha Amranand, Published on 27/07/2017
» We often get to see the intersection of the spiritual and the worldly realms in Nikorn Saetang's plays. Buddhist and animist beliefs also play a major role in his work. The spirits of a Japanese soldier and a pining woman walk among the living in search of their loved ones in Rai Pamnak (Where Should I Lay My Soul?). An adult-size baby forces himself into a family whose daughter is hiding her abortion from everyone in Tarok Jokapred (Perverted Baby). A man reincarnates over and over again and refuses to forget his past lives and his family in Kerd-Dub (Reincarnate).
It's just not subversive
Life, Amitha Amranand, Published on 15/06/2017
» The latest play by director Wichaya Artamat of For What Theatre comes with this description: "A post-contemporary remodernist naturalistic surrealist romantic tragicomedy non-political performance." The Thai title of the play is Mai Mee Arai Ja Pood, which means Nothing To Say. The English title: What We Talk About When We Don't Talk About The Elephant In The Room.
The joy of growing older
Life, Amitha Amranand, Published on 13/10/2016
» When middle age looms ever closer, every mistake, change and loss feels like it could seal your destiny and define your life. It's this sense of urgency and desperation that playwright and director Nophand Boonyai captures so well in his delightful new comedy Happy New Year, Mr. Smith.
The perfect murder
Life, Amitha Amranand, Published on 17/12/2015
» In B-Floor Theatre's Jaa Phantachat's latest creation Ceci N'est Pas La Politique (This Is Not Politics), the audience takes part in solving a murder mystery. No, this is not a mystery dinner. Rather, it's a kangaroo court, a quiz show and a reality show all rolled into one, where we willingly become the players, and unwittingly become the jury.
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)
Turning the pages of Democracy
Life, Amitha Amranand, Published on 04/06/2012
» Since the advent of bookstore chains, followed by the domination of Amazon, the act of dreaming up, opening and maintaining an independent bookstore has always been considered a statement against the invasion of giant corporations.
Poetry in motion
Life, Amitha Amranand, Published on 01/03/2012
» Never had the motion, of a live show, its rhythm and flow, stayed within me the way that of Stereoptik has. Stereoptik, by Stereoptik, blows up the intimacy of two artists focused on rendering one world after and within another in real time onto a big screen, into a communal experience, like the cinema. Or is it a two-dimensional dance? A concert? A wordless poem?