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    Not entirely transfixing

    Life, Amitha Amranand, Published on 07/06/2019

    » For its second production, Qrious Theatre transplants the 2005 American film Transamerica to Thailand. TranS I-Am is an awkward US-to-Thailand and screen-to-stage adaptation, but it's sweet and offbeat enough to charm.

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    No comfort for young women

    Life, Amitha Amranand, Published on 17/08/2018

    » One of the biggest issues commanding media attention in the past year has been that of gender violence. And Peel the Limelight has dedicated this year to staging plays that shed light on the topic from different angles, starting with a production of Agnes Of God, about a young nun with a history of abuse. That was followed by I Am My Own Wife, a one-person play about the life of a transgender woman during World War II and the Communist regime in East Berlin.

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    Grace, beauty - and self-discovery

    Life, Amitha Amranand, Published on 01/12/2017

    » Unfolding Kafka Festival 2017 ended in Chiang Mai on Sunday. This year, under themes of gender identity, animals and folding and unfolding of the body and objects, the festival's performing arts programme doubled in size. Life reviews all the seven performances presented in Bangkok.

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    Freeform art

    Life, Amitha Amranand, Published on 01/12/2017

    » A decade ago, theatre was still seen an art form on the margin in Thailand. That is less true today. Visual art and design events are beginning to include theatre in their programmes. The new art and design event Freeform Festival has revived an abandoned school building at ACMEN Ekamai Complex with exhibitions, workshops, food trucks, plays and dance. Their performing arts programme is a solid one. Hopefully, this will become another platform for quality theatre in the future.

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    The trap of trust

    Life, Amitha Amranand, Published on 27/07/2017

    » We often get to see the intersection of the spiritual and the worldly realms in Nikorn Saetang's plays. Buddhist and animist beliefs also play a major role in his work. The spirits of a Japanese soldier and a pining woman walk among the living in search of their loved ones in Rai Pamnak (Where Should I Lay My Soul?). An adult-size baby forces himself into a family whose daughter is hiding her abortion from everyone in Tarok Jokapred (Perverted Baby). A man reincarnates over and over again and refuses to forget his past lives and his family in Kerd-Dub (Reincarnate).

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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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    The joy of growing older

    Life, Amitha Amranand, Published on 13/10/2016

    » When middle age looms ever closer, every mistake, change and loss feels like it could seal your destiny and define your life. It's this sense of urgency and desperation that playwright and director Nophand Boonyai captures so well in his delightful new comedy Happy New Year, Mr. Smith.

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    The past that haunts

    Life, Amitha Amranand, Published on 30/06/2016

    » More and more, theatre artists are tucking messages about memory, history and tyranny into the crevices of the quotidian. More and more, between the lines of mundane conversations among siblings in the home, lies something political.

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    A colourful unpeeling of youth sexuality in Paula Vogel's play

    Life, Amitha Amranand, Published on 10/03/2016

    » After the success of The True History Of The Tragic Life and Triumphant Death Of Julia Pastrana, The Ugliest Woman In The World, Peel the Limelight returns with another thought-provoking and emotionally nuanced play, Paula Vogel's 1998 Pulitzer Prize–winning How I Learned To Drive. At once gentle and disturbing, funny and poignant, the play tells the story of Li'l Bit and her unusual relationship with Uncle Peck during her adolescence.

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    Theatre festival round-up

    Life, Amitha Amranand, Published on 20/11/2014

    » The 13th edition of the Bangkok Theatre Festival (BTF) has come and gone. This year, the theatre scene seems to have churned out a record-breaking number of productions and festivals. And somehow the small, yet growing community still manages to organise this annual theatre event and fill up most of the small venues around Bangkok.

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