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    Rocky road of life

    Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 03/03/2016

    » Bangkok-based English-speaking theatre troupe Peel the Limelight's previous performance, The True History Of The Tragic Life And Triumphant Death Of Julia Pastrana, was quite a success at Bangkok Theatre Festival last year winning Best Direction of a Play and Best Performance by an Ensemble from the International Association of Theatre Critics (Thailand Centre). Now, they are back with yet another promising production of the Pulitzer Prize-winning How I Learned To Drive by the American playwright Paula Vogel.

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    Edgy film gets axe but soap rapes go on

    News, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 24/11/2016

    » It is with a frustratingly slow pace that Motel Mist, SEA Write Award-winner Prabda Yoon's debut feature film, starts off and it remains slow until much later on in the film.

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    Dark laughter

    Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 16/10/2014

    » Director and playwright Nophand Boonyai once saw a random photo of four Japanese girls staring dead-faced at the camera. He pondered as to how they had got that look in their eyes and then heard the song I Only Have Eyes For You. He suddenly had a vision of Earth, seen from outer space: there was a dead body lying still, pale white in the moonlight.

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    The Cult: You're either in or out

    Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 30/10/2014

    » The girls at Monte Cristo School are overly demure and respectful. The school's shrine has a spot for a picture of the country's leader to which students bow with deepest loyalty and gratitude when passing by. They're musically adept, but only with Thai tunes. (Western songs like those of The Beatles are strictly forbidden).

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    Born, bred (and perhaps brewed)

    Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 19/08/2016

    » The place looks like a regular house in the suburban Pak Kret district, roughly one-hour drive out of Bangkok. Look closer, however, the house appears unlived, more like a warehouse with some sort of operation going on inside, and a walk round to its backyard reveals five massive hothouses which span 1,600m².

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    Protest, die, repeat?

    Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 18/05/2016

    » Sunday marks the second anniversary of the 2014 military takeover, the second coup d'etat in Thailand in a decade and the 12th successful one since absolute monarchy was overthrown in 1932. And three months from now, in August, the highly controversial charter referendum will take place.

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    Art as a political act

    Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 18/03/2016

    » It was with a feeling of nausea and disgust that Chiang Mai-based artist Mit Jai Inn spent one month working on his new series of abstract paintings, now on display and part of the exhibition "Wett" at Gallery Ver at N22 in Bangkok. Mit's series is entitled "Junta Monochrome" -- obviously not for the works themselves -- for the art space has exploded with every colour imaginable; rather the title conveys the artist's contempt for the reality outside: a junta-ruled country where things are either black or white, where if you're not a khon dee (good person), the artist says, you are inevitably the bad guy.

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    Premier must fulfil promises of his ballads

    News, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 28/01/2016

    » A video clip which has gone viral recently features Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha as he pays a visit to Ratharat-anusorn School in Nakhon Sawan province last week. It shows students lining up to welcome him by singing Because You Are Thailand, a song penned by the prime minister himself as a New Year gift last year.

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    For your new eyes only

    Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 30/10/2015

    » From stage plays, contemporary dance, pantomime and lakhon chatri (traditional Thai folk dance-drama), to many other genres of performing arts, the 13th edition of Bangkok Theatre Festival returns under the theme "New View, New Eyes" on Tuesday until Nov 15.

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    From the past, into the future

    Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 10/02/2015

    » There are three versions of Korakrit Arunanondchai, one of Thailand's hottest mavericks whose works have been shown internationally in recent years: first, Korakrit in person, who isn't the most comprehensible of talkers; second, the Korakrit he professes himself to be, which is a jeans-clad, fiery-haired, spontaneous painter and gangster/rapper performance artist.

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