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  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.

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  Constant flux

  Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 14/12/2016

  » Bangkok Art and Culture Centre hasn't seen this many visitors in quite a while. Today people are everywhere in the exhibition space on the 9th floor even though it is a weekday afternoon. They have never been so involved with the artworks on display and careless as to what other visitors might think of them.

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  Art imitating life imitating art

  Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 04/08/2016

  » After two-year hiatus, Jaturachai Srichanwanpen is back with his new play The Moo Moo Field, an adaptation from American playwright Annie Baker's Circle Mirror Transformation, and in it, actor Khalid Midam shines.

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  Loss and longing

  Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 02/06/2016

  » It's not until we have seen the ongoing show "Lhong", a project comprising of five short plays, that we realise how much the space of Democrazy Theatre Studio actually has to offer. We usually just buy some beers at a little café in front and then head straight into the space inside, and that's it.

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  Out of the sunlight

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

  » Every use of the word "sunlight" in Duncan Macmillan's play Every Brilliant Thing, was replaced with "sunset" by director Pawit Mahasarinand in his Thai adaptation, which has just finished its run at Chulalongkorn University's Sodsai Pantoomkomol Centre for Dramatic Arts last week.

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  Dracula: more handsome than scary

  Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 25/02/2016

  » Tickets for Dracula: Blood Is Life, Ewing Entertainment Worldwide's debut stage play in Thailand, start at 1,200 baht and we simply may never agree on whether the show is worth the price. What we will agree on, however, is that Chulachak "Hugo" Chakrabongse, starring as Count Dracula, is a good-looking man. Women love him and so do men, straight or gay.

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  The shape-shifting form of protests

  Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 06/10/2015

  » The streets remained empty and all was quiet when thousands of people gathered last Wednesday night to protest against the government's Single Gateway proposal. Protesters weren't, however, down at major landmarks like Asoke or Ratchaprasong intersections, but simply in front of their computer screens. By merely punching the refresh button, these protesters let their resentment known to the authorities by crashing at least six government sites, including the Ministry of Information and Communications Technology.

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  A monthly column rounding up the best of the capita l’s art scene

  Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 30/09/2015

  » Art Matters begins with a gentle reminder that "Rediscovering Forgotten Thai Masters Of Photography" -- a black-and-white optic feast comprised of works by seven Thai photographers -- continues at Bangkok University Gallery until the end of Oct and is not to be missed.

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  Moments, machines and man

  Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 22/07/2015

  » Despite its young age, Soy Sauce Factory has in the past year made itself a proper addition to the Bangkok photography scene alongside Serindia Gallery, Kathmandu Photo Gallery and RMA Institute.

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  Breaking the bloody iceberg

  Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 16/07/2015

  » Teerawat Mulvilai knows he's being watched onstage. In his case specifically, it is with extreme scrutiny, a sense of wonder and perplexity. Standing very still seems just as significant as when he moves. He's done it many times before, namely in the first two instalments of his solo performance in Satapana (Establishment), which were Red Tank followed by Iceberg, last year.

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