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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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Garden of dreams and delights
Life, Amitha Amranand, Published on 09/05/2019
» B-floor Theatre, Thailand's only physical theatre company, turns 20 this year. And they are marking the occasion with Shakespeare.
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Beaming a light on human absurdity
Life, Amitha Amranand, Published on 10/08/2017
» The latest adaptation effort by playwright-director Parnrut Kritchanchai revolves around the Moon, or rather, around five lonesome souls one Full-Moon night. It is also Parnrut's continued exploration of the melodrama genre in all its manifestations.
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Freedom of the stage
Life, Amitha Amranand, Published on 22/05/2015
» Ornanong ThaisriwongPerformer, director | B-Floor TheatreRecent work: Bang La MerdUp next: See Wan Nai Deun Kanya (Four Days In September)
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Thailand in a room
Life, Amitha Amranand, Published on 05/02/2015
» None of us own Bang-La-Merd, but we are all living in it. In Bang-La-Merd, you must be careful not to use the words "freedom" and "rights". The term "human rights" is especially sensitive and most likely prohibited, and in circumstances relating to the sacred, absolutely irrelevant. In Bang-La-Merd, it is advisable to not criticise all that you love and uphold for it is illegal to criticise those whom you must love and uphold.
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Playing with contradictions
Life, Amitha Amranand, Published on 28/11/2013
» Despite their metallic grey sheen, their shapes and details clearly indicated their roots _ khon. Looking closer, however, and instead of the usual full, growling faces of the khon demons, the cheeks and eyes of these masks designed by Anuthep Potchprasart resembled those of a skeleton. The first few notes plucked from the traditional Chinese guqin zither unfolded an ominous blanket over the show.
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Taking centre stage
Life, Amitha Amranand, Published on 21/11/2013
» The Bangkok Theatre Festival (BTF) seems to have been plagued with bad luck these past few years. In 2011, the festival organiser, Bangkok Theatre Network, was forced to postpone the event from its usual slot in November to early 2012 due to the major floods in the Central region.
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Theatre as a mirror
Life, Amitha Amranand, Published on 02/02/2012
» We asked a number of local playwrights, directors and performers to pick a play they believe speaks about present-day Thailand. The play could be thousands of years old or recently written. We didn't limit the choice to works originally written in Thai.
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Steadily Forward
Life, Amitha Amranand, Published on 15/02/2012
» Before ushering the Bangkok Theatre Festival (BTF) into its 10th year, Nut Nualpang, founder of Saosoong Theatre and this year's festival programme director, strapped the regular members of the Bangkok Theatre Network (BTN), comprising a handful of small professional theatre companies, onto the operating table. Not only did they come under the knives of fellow artists and audience members, these theatre practitioners also got to spill their guts in a series of informal talks called kheun khiang (literally "getting on the chopping block").
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