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Pushing the limits
Life, Amitha Amranand, Published on 05/08/2021
» The first virtual theatre festival that I participated in was "Isra-Drama: International Exposure Of Israeli Theatre 2020". I had never been to Israel and I still have not been to Israel.
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A double bill of different
Life, Amitha Amranand, Published on 05/07/2019
» Cleaning has never looked so fun, violent and spooky. Young theatre artists Kawin Bhichitkul of Dee-ng Theatre and Surat Kaewseekram of B-floor Theatre spin visually exciting tales with disposed objects in a double-bill performance, What's Left: Resonance From The Discarded, at WTF Bar & Gallery.
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Transmitting human angst
Life, Amitha Amranand, Published on 01/03/2018
» Second time's a charm for Fullfat Theatre at Warehouse 30. The company returns to the space that had dwarfed and overwhelmed the troupe's first play [Co/exist] with its sheer size and uninsulated high ceiling. With the new play, Taxiradio, playwright-director and Fullfat co-founder Nophand Boonyai has successfully tamed the rugged space to achieve not only live performance suitability, but also intimacy.
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A story for our times
Life, Amitha Amranand, Published on 07/09/2017
» Under oppressive regimes, artists are often forced to turn true stories into metaphors or disguise them in the stories of others to escape censorship, or much worse fates. The atmosphere of fear and the sense of stagnation perpetuated by such rule can have such insidious effects that the practice of wrapping true stories in the safe veil of the cryptic sometimes crosses into self-censorship and becomes habit-forming.
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The joyful, melancholic plastic dance
Life, Amitha Amranand, Published on 15/06/2017
» Without much direct contact with the human hands, French multidisciplinary performing-arts company Non Nova breathes life into plastic bags. And slowly, a ballet emerges.
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Walking in the rain
Life, Amitha Amranand, Published on 08/06/2017
» Heavy rain in Bangkok can deter people from a lot, including going to see a play in an unfamiliar or notoriously congested location. It should have also deterred Full Fat Theatre from staging a show in a warehouse that had not been converted into a performance space, meaning metal roof still intact and no acoustic design whatsoever. Alas, it didn't.
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Radical Beauty
Life, Amitha Amranand, Published on 08/06/2017
» Prumsodun Ok has broken many rules. The Khmer-American artist studied classical Cambodian dance -- an art dominated by women. He then founded the first gay dance company in Cambodia, Prumsodun Ok & Natyarasa. He and his company perform Cambodian dance in costumes designed to expose more skin than the traditional ones. They also dance male and female parts.
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Laughing through the grieving process
Life, Amitha Amranand, Published on 04/05/2017
» Before the house opened on Saturday night, Culture Collective Studio founder Loni Berry told the audience that although the play we were about to see, David Lindsay-Abaire's Pulitzer Prize-winning Rabbit Hole, revolved around the death of a four-year-old boy, it was all right to laugh from time to time. And laugh we did.
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Swings and misses
Life, Amitha Amranand, Published on 15/12/2016
» These theatre newcomers close 2016 with daring productions. Even though some of the results were uneven, their desire to make meaningful and thought-provoking art is palpable
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Redressing history
Life, Amitha Amranand, Published on 24/11/2016
» Two new plays have examined the notion of 'justice'. One digs into the political history of Chile and Thailand, the other takes us inside an American jury room
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