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When even the air can turn toxic
Life, Amitha Amranand, Published on 05/07/2012
» The white paint stains the plastic sheets, which drop from the ceiling to the floor, and covers the walls of newspapers.
Flirting with a Fall
Life, Amitha Amranand, Published on 21/06/2012
» Two young bloods of the longstanding Crescent Moon Theatre wrestle with the gravity of adulthood in their directorial debut, Fall: Ruang Hok Tok Lon (all the Thai words mean "to fall").
Moving towards nothingness
Life, Amitha Amranand, Published on 24/05/2012
» A few months ago, Adjjima Na Patalung posted on Facebook, asking for chair donations. For her upcoming production the stage required to be filled with chairs _ chairs that will be occupied by no one. The director has decided to stage Eugene Ionesco's Chairs for the Demo Classic Project 2, an annual programme at Democrazy Theatre Studio that invites young directors to tackle theatre classics.
Customary Confection
Life, Amitha Amranand, Published on 23/05/2012
» Watching Dreambox's Prisana: The Musical was like delicately nibbling on pastel-coloured sweets and sipping tea from a porcelain cup while cooing with your friends for hours on end. Well, three hours and forty-five minutes to be exact. Although this is a rather self-indulgent length for a fluffy romance, Prisana, for the most part, delighted.
The root and fruit of Love
Life, Amitha Amranand, Published on 03/05/2012
» As much of Thailand's classical trove consists of creations from the court, it comes as no surprise that kings in Thai literature are mostly portrayed as exquisite, god-like beings _ the epitome of goodness and wisdom. Some contemporary Thai artists like to mine the canon to create works for the purpose of teaching the accepted set of morals and ethics, rather than to question them.
Of love and Lear
Life, Amitha Amranand, Published on 19/04/2012
» When it comes to matters of the heart, the Bard's stock remains one of the most popular among theatre and film artists. Most recently, director-performer Jaa Pantachat of B-Floor Theatre plucked out King Lear to navigate the puzzling terrain of fatherly and sibling loves.
Sayonara to stereotypes
Life, Amitha Amranand, Published on 15/03/2012
» Oriza Hirata's theatre is a theatre unafraid of silence, of actors turning their backs on spectators, of things said on stage not reaching the ears of the audience. The founder of the Tokyo-based Seinendan Theatre has developed an approach he calls Contemporary Colloquial in which the language used on stage is infused with the structure, grammar and rhythms of everyday spoken Japanese.
Therapy as art, and vice versa
Life, Amitha Amranand, Published on 25/01/2012
» Growing up in this country, I often heard people say that Thais don't go to psychiatrists to sort out their problems; they go to fortune-tellers. Later, while I was living in the West, I saw many individuals running to counsellors and therapists to untangle the knots and smooth out the bumps in their lives.