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Supermarket satire
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 10/03/2017
» To celebrate the 160th anniversary of Thai-Japanese diplomatic relations, the Japan Foundation Bangkok is presenting renowned Japanese playwright and director Toshiki Okada's Super Premium Soft Double Vanilla Rich at Chulalongkorn University's Sodsai Pantoomkomol Centre for Dramatic Arts until Sunday.
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The value of children's theatre
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 12/05/2016
» 'If Thailand does indeed give value to children, who are the future of this country, why has there never been a full-scale international festival for children and young people?"
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Searching for identity
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 06/01/2016
» In one exhibition room at Navin Rawanchaikul's studiOK in Chiang Mai, wooden crates used for shipping his previous artworks are piled up as a huge rectangular structure. An entrance on one side reveals an old fabric shop, with rolls of cloth of various colours, desks and measurement tools. Open for viewing for the first time late last month, the "shop" is an exact recreation of O.K. Store, Navin's family clothing store, his original home in Chiang Mai's Warorot Market.
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Hungry for solutions
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 03/06/2015
» Boats are floating, one filled with fresh flowers, the other carrying a supply of meatballs, white noodles, or sen lek, fish sauce, chilli powder and sugar. Next to that is a rice paddy, which looks about a month old.
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Thai-style Girl X
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 04/06/2015
» Japanese Suguru Yamamoto's Girl X which visited Bangkok Theatre Festival last year was a heartbreaking story of loss told with incredibly precise art direction, winning the festival's awards for Best Original Script and Best Play.
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Making connections, not cash
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 21/01/2015
» Artist Pisitakun Kuantalaeng, 28, was once a Yellow Shirt. In less than a decade, Pisitakun went from a fervent supporter of anti-Thaksin politics and airport seizures to an artist who took to the streets after the junta seized power last May.
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Building Lego houses
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 09/10/2014
» For Teerawat Mulvilai, veteran performer and B-Floor Theatre’s artistic director, Thailand moves forward by balancing on a ball and people seem glad to start all over again after tumbling down.
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A very hairy journey
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 26/08/2014
» Armed with scissors and a comb, Japanese Jun Kuwabara set out earlier this year to travel the world and, while he's at it, cut the hair of 1,000 people. In a recent interview with Life, the 26-year-old hairdresser took us through the leafy and vibrant Rambuttri in the Khao San area to set up "a temporary salon".
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Shantytown saviour
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 30/04/2014
» Akihiro Tomikawa exudes a faint air of sadness and one’s first impression on meeting him is that melancholy is a semi-permanent state for this self-made Japanese businessman — a sort of default mode. The 45-year-old appears reluctant to talk about his past, not surprisingly, perhaps, for someone who has so many unhappy memories to suppress. As a boy, he was frequently beaten by his stepfather, driving him to seriously consider suicide and to look back on his childhood as a lonely period when his existence was more like that of a waif — a “stray kid”, as he puts it — than a cherished member of a family unit.
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War of words
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 27/01/2014
» When the red shirts camped out at Rajamangala Stadium last December to support PM Yingluck Shinawatra, a popular quip among the anti-Thaksin camp was that the football field needed a proper re-turf as those "kwai daeng", or red buffalo, had eaten all the grass.
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