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A Decade of Development
Life, Amitha Amranand, Published on 07/03/2012
» The 10th Bangkok Theatre Festival (BTF) drew to a close on Sunday in an air-conditioned meeting room at the Bangkok Art and Culture Centre (BACC), marking the first time the event held its closing ceremony indoors. The choice of venue also signifies the beginning of a new friendship.
Co-authoring, not performing
Life, Amitha Amranand, Published on 16/02/2012
» Tim Crouch went into acting with questions and uncertainty, rather than in hopes of achieving personal fame. When he decided to enrol at the Central School of Speech and Drama in London, he said it was because he didn't think he knew what an actor was. And ultimately he felt that the training he got there didn't "show me what an actor is, only what he is not". He gradually came to the realisation that he had become an actor with a dead-end job _ acting _ and that taking part in conventional drama productions was preventing him from "authoring his creativity", as he puts it.
Steadily Forward
Life, Amitha Amranand, Published on 15/02/2012
» Before ushering the Bangkok Theatre Festival (BTF) into its 10th year, Nut Nualpang, founder of Saosoong Theatre and this year's festival programme director, strapped the regular members of the Bangkok Theatre Network (BTN), comprising a handful of small professional theatre companies, onto the operating table. Not only did they come under the knives of fellow artists and audience members, these theatre practitioners also got to spill their guts in a series of informal talks called kheun khiang (literally "getting on the chopping block").
Theatre as a mirror
Life, Amitha Amranand, Published on 02/02/2012
» We asked a number of local playwrights, directors and performers to pick a play they believe speaks about present-day Thailand. The play could be thousands of years old or recently written. We didn't limit the choice to works originally written in Thai.