• OPINION

  No stars in gunman saga 'reality show'

  News, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 26/05/2016

  » 'You are the star," said Christof to Truman Burbank in the 1998 American satirical comedy-drama hit film The Truman Show. Jim Carrey stars as Truman, a man whose whole life in a constructed reality is broadcast 24/7 to billions of people around the world. "You were real. That's what made you so good to watch."

• LIFE

  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.

• LIFE

  A play with the audience

  Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 10/12/2015

  » In the painting The Treachery Of Images by surrealist René Magritte, there is the text, "Ceci n'est pas une pipe". But in a new performance by B-Floor's co-artistic director Jarunun Phantachat, she calls it Ceci N'est Pas La Politique (This Is Not Politics). This may well be a treacherous title too, considering how politically outspoken B-Floor has been, with Manoland by Teerawat Mulvilai in October and other performances over the year.

• LIFE

  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.

• LIFE

  A Monthly column rounding up the best of the capital’s arts scene

  Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 23/07/2014

  » Could it be the result of a curatorial conspiracy, the fact that three exhibitions currently underway at different locations across town have chosen to focus on the dark side, on human body parts, on decay and death (by foul means and fair)?

• LIFE

  A demon with heart

  Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 29/05/2014

  » At certain moments, it is obvious that Compassion, a play running at Crescent Moon Space, is German actor-turned-director Robin Schroeter’s directorial debut.

• LIFE

  The Physicists defies gravity

  Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 05/06/2014

  » Nothing about The Physicists seemed promising. The play, an adaptation of Friedrich Dürrenmatt’s Die Physiker, was staged at GOJA Gallery Café in Phra Kanong and finished its run last Monday. There is an obvious reason for it not being staged in a proper theatre — the place is but a small two-block gallery where actors ran outside when they finished their parts while those who were yet to come out were hiding in a tiny bathroom. The light and sound control team took over the barista’s area. Seats for the audience were awkwardly arranged around the room as leaning on the wall was not advised after some art on display fell and one of the audience members had to pay for it. All this, personally, didn’t bode well for either the quality or the seriousness of the production. But I was quite wrong.

• LIFE

  All the world's a stage

  Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 30/10/2013

  » Plays, musicals, contemporary dance, pantomime, physical and experimental theatre, performing acts for children and families _ you name it _ the Bangkok Theatre Festival returns for the 11th year this Saturday, highlighting the city's small yet thriving scene.

• LIFE

  Not in my baan

  Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 06/09/2013

  » The banning of two Thai films, Insects In The Backyard in 2010, and Shakespeare Must Die last year, has drawn strong criticism from a lot of people both in terms of the freedom of expression and the censor board's judgement.

• LIFE

  In for the kill

  Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 16/08/2013

  » 'Wouldn't it be great if we could get one free murder a year we could get away with?" This is the question director James DeMonaco's wife asked one fateful evening after they were almost killed by a drunk driver. Recounting the event with a chuckle and the safety of hindsight, DeMonaco assures us that his wife, who's a doctor, is actually a very good person and that she just said that in a fit of "anger and emotion". However, he admits the idea was to stick in his head for a long time.

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