• LIFE

  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.

• LIFE

  Cool Thailand?

  Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 29/04/2016

  » It is only with reference to J-pop or K-pop that we have a clue as to what the word "T-pop" could possibly mean: an attempt at cultural export -- film, music and other forms of entertainment -- to create a "Thai brand" of cool. It's better late than never, so the Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) has recently launched a campaign, with Thai star Mario Maurer as the presenter, with the aim to boost tourism in Thailand and expand the entertainment market in China.

• LIFE

  Poor me

  Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 21/01/2016

  » While Crescent Moon Theatre presents the Thai-Korean collaboration Mai Pen Rai Project, Democrazy Theatre Studio is kicking off 2016 with Peerapol Kijreunpiromsuk's directorial debut Plan B.

• LIFE

  Being boxed in

  Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 18/09/2014

  » The space at Democrazy Theatre Studio has now been filled with boxes. They're a major part in director Adjjima Na Patalung's latest production The Boxes, which opens on Saturday.

• LIFE

  Lion's share

  Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 27/01/2017

  » The night was lively around the neighbourhood of Saint-Germain-des-Prés last Saturday for the opening of this year's Paris Déco Off, an annual event where more than 100 home-furnishing-fabrics brands join to showcase their latest designs. But there was perhaps more buzzing than anywhere else down the quaint Rue de Furstenberg where the Jim Thompson showroom is situated.

• LIFE

  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.

• LIFE

  Songkhla's art scene comes alive

  Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 26/08/2016

  » The historic old town of Songkhla is always full of life. But everything -- the people and the picturesque old neighbourhood flanked by the lake on one side and ocean on the other -- was accentuated over the past weekend.

• LIFE

  Wet bodies

  Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 29/06/2016

  » Over the past weekend, it appears that practically every familiar face made it to Hotel Art Fair, a fair wherein hotel rooms, showers and toilets duly ceased to function temporarily to showcase art. Just like how the same crowd made it the week before to the opening of Bangkok Citycity Gallery's hit show by director Nawapol Thamrongrattanarit, and just like they will this weekend head to MAIIAM Contemporary Art Museum's inaugural show "The Serenity Of Madness" in Chiang Mai, the first retrospective of Apichatpong Weerasethakul.

• LIFE

  Art attack

  Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 08/06/2016

  » The art dispute of the year is upon us. As the art community sees the rift open up, it also reminds society of the ideological divide that has plagued Thailand for many years. The stage is the exhibition called "The Truth_ To Turn It Over" curated by Gwangju Museum of Art to commemorate the 1980 Gwangju Uprising against the military dictatorship; it's been almost a month since the show opened in South Korea, but it's still very much "an ongoing process" -- a very heated one at that.

• OPINION

  Who’ll show the elephant out of the room?

  News, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 28/04/2016

  » There's this huge elephant in this room, of which no one -- neither the military government nor the general public -- talks about out loud, and it's one of the most likely explanations why the regime has held on to power as long as it has.

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