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Examination of Loneliness
Life, Amitha Amranand, Published on 19/06/2014
» After a year-and-a-half away from the stage, Lithuanian theatre teacher and artist Egle Simkeviciute Kulvelis decided it was time to get back to her beloved craft. Kulvelis began taking an interest in theatre after high school and chose it as her major in university. After graduation, she moved to Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, where she taught children and teenagers at a drama academy.
Love, manufactured
Life, Amitha Amranand, Published on 05/06/2014
» There always seems to be an invisible tyrant hanging over the audience’s head in Thanapol Viruhakul’s creations. But in his latest production, Hipster The King, at Democrazy Theatre Studio, this tyrant is not so invisible.
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.
Playhouse politics
Life, Amitha Amranand, Published on 16/01/2014
» As Thai politics heat up on the streets and social media, the act of seeing people in the flesh has never felt more important. For many hours a day, we are glued to our phones and computer screens. People _ friends, acquaintances, colleagues _ are soon reduced to opinions on a single subject.
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).
Big-hearted big head
Life, Amitha Amranand, Published on 26/09/2013
» When the actors, noisy with child-like enthusiasm, streamed out of the theatre into the foyer of Democrazy Theatre Studio to surprise the audience before the show started, I began to worry that I would have to sit through a play that had a bunch of grown-up performers acting like over-enthusiastic, screeching kids. Thankfully, that was not the case with Pisat Hua To (Big Head Monster). And a few minutes into the play, I could feel how the show was made with a lot of love and a lot of joy.
Breaking barriers
Life, Amitha Amranand, Published on 19/09/2013
» Two Silpathorn Award winners bring together their respective expertise in Maya Yak, a collaboration that, although marks a significant step and experiment for the artists, left only a faint emotional imprint on me.
One for the money, two for the show
Life, Amitha Amranand, Published on 22/08/2013
» Women Of Asia returns to the spotlight almost three decades after its conception here in Thailand. Written and directed by Korean-American theatre artist Asa Gim Palomera, the play comprises eight unrelated scenes and monologues inspired by real-life stories of women across Asia, collected from news articles and humanitarian agencies. And while in Palomera's hands the stories are moving and ring true, the play is stylistically dated and heavy-handed to the point of distraction.
Boldly powerful
Life, Amitha Amranand, Published on 25/07/2013
» I don't think I have ever seen an original play in Thailand that is as moving and satisfying as Chuichai Saneha. In Thailand's dialogue-driven department, such meaty writing is rare. So is such a complete aesthetic experience.
Heart of darkness
Life, Amitha Amranand, Published on 25/07/2013
» In B-Floor Theatre's latest production (In) Sensitivity, directed by Dujdao Vadhanapakorn Boonyai, audience members move from one room to another in single file, like a stream of blood coursing from one heart chamber into another.