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A colourful unpeeling of youth sexuality in Paula Vogel's play
Life, Amitha Amranand, Published on 10/03/2016
» After the success of The True History Of The Tragic Life and Triumphant Death Of Julia Pastrana, The Ugliest Woman In The World, Peel the Limelight returns with another thought-provoking and emotionally nuanced play, Paula Vogel's 1998 Pulitzer Prize–winning How I Learned To Drive. At once gentle and disturbing, funny and poignant, the play tells the story of Li'l Bit and her unusual relationship with Uncle Peck during her adolescence.
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.
Double trouble
Life, Amitha Amranand, Published on 22/10/2015
» The story of Eng and Chang Bunker, better known as the Siamese twins, is the subject of an ambitious musical by the College of Music, Mahidol University.
The Metamorphosis
Life, Amitha Amranand, Published on 20/08/2015
» What would you do if you woke up one morning to find out that your own child had turned into a robot? How would you interact and coexist with something that speaks, thinks and feels like a human being yet does not look in any way human, not even a living creature?
Life on the small stage
Life, Amitha Amranand, Published on 13/05/2015
» Three new English-speaking theatre companies in Bangkok make a name for themselves.
Theatre festival round-up
Life, Amitha Amranand, Published on 20/11/2014
» The 13th edition of the Bangkok Theatre Festival (BTF) has come and gone. This year, the theatre scene seems to have churned out a record-breaking number of productions and festivals. And somehow the small, yet growing community still manages to organise this annual theatre event and fill up most of the small venues around Bangkok.
Kiss and make up?
Life, Amitha Amranand, Published on 16/10/2014
» On the page, sentences in Cloture De L’amour (Love’s End) snap off arbitrarily, words tumbling into the next line and the next. There is no real beginning or end to sentences, no capitalisation, no full stops, no commas. Onstage, a man and a woman try to end to their relationship with this same cascade of words.
Many shades of grey
Life, Amitha Amranand, Published on 06/02/2014
» Last year, Crescent Moon Theatre's Project 1/4 gathered four directors together to direct four short plays written by Orada Lelanuja. Each of the plays featured two characters who speak to the audience and not to each other, each telling their own side of the story, never looking at one another a wide emotional gap between them. They eventually find a way towards each other, closing that gap.
Setting the stage for change
Life, Amitha Amranand, Published on 18/12/2013
» As more and more people fall victim to Thailand's censorship laws _ and as the political divide deepens _ the local theatre scene continues to flourish. It is easily the artistic field least supported by the state, and receives little to no corporate sponsorship. As a result, theatre artists have mostly escaped the state censors' radar _ compared to, say, film _ and are mainly free from creating work to fulfil nationalistic, ultra-royalist agendas in order to obtain funding. Thus, theatre is probably the most politically minded among all forms of artistic and cultural expression in Thailand.
Whirlwind of history
Life, Amitha Amranand, Published on 10/10/2013
» To commemorate the 40th anniversary of the Oct 14, 1973, student uprising, B-Floor Theatre and the students from Thammasat University's Faculty of Fine and Applied Arts journey into the past, scrutinise the present and look to the future in the spirited, moving Typhoon (The Remains).