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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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Co-authoring, not performing
Life, Amitha Amranand, Published on 16/02/2012
» Tim Crouch went into acting with questions and uncertainty, rather than in hopes of achieving personal fame. When he decided to enrol at the Central School of Speech and Drama in London, he said it was because he didn't think he knew what an actor was. And ultimately he felt that the training he got there didn't "show me what an actor is, only what he is not". He gradually came to the realisation that he had become an actor with a dead-end job _ acting _ and that taking part in conventional drama productions was preventing him from "authoring his creativity", as he puts it.
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A Decade of Development
Life, Amitha Amranand, Published on 07/03/2012
» The 10th Bangkok Theatre Festival (BTF) drew to a close on Sunday in an air-conditioned meeting room at the Bangkok Art and Culture Centre (BACC), marking the first time the event held its closing ceremony indoors. The choice of venue also signifies the beginning of a new friendship.
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Sayonara to stereotypes
Life, Amitha Amranand, Published on 15/03/2012
» Oriza Hirata's theatre is a theatre unafraid of silence, of actors turning their backs on spectators, of things said on stage not reaching the ears of the audience. The founder of the Tokyo-based Seinendan Theatre has developed an approach he calls Contemporary Colloquial in which the language used on stage is infused with the structure, grammar and rhythms of everyday spoken Japanese.
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Turning the pages of Democracy
Life, Amitha Amranand, Published on 04/06/2012
» Since the advent of bookstore chains, followed by the domination of Amazon, the act of dreaming up, opening and maintaining an independent bookstore has always been considered a statement against the invasion of giant corporations.
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Beyond the dancing doll
Life, Amitha Amranand, Published on 07/02/2013
» First we saw a body part, an arm perhaps, bent into a triangle, and the rest was darkness. The lights went out. The performer moved, and another body part was lit up. As the performance moved from obscurity into brightness, Sujata Goel continued to move in the same pattern, changing from pose to pose until the spotlight covered the entire stage as if opening up the possibilities of what this dancing body was and could be.
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Adopting ideas
Life, Amitha Amranand, Published on 21/02/2013
» Up-and-coming writer-director- performer Nophand Boonyai is back with another playful creation for the stage. Like his highly successful Therapy (After The Flood) last year, Adoption is a largely improvised show featuring three couples competing to adopt one child.
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Right on track
Life, Amitha Amranand, Published on 27/03/2013
» Author Sri Daoruang, her husband, magazine and literary editor Suchart Sawadsri and their son live by a rail track and use the train as their main mode of transport. The deep connection this literary family has with the train is well-known. And the train track figures prominently in many of Sri Daoruang's short stories.
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Gruesome torture relived with both barrels
Life, Amitha Amranand, Published on 06/11/2014
» Almost right after I watched Teerawat "Kage" Mulvilai's solo performance Satapana: Iceberg, I came across Chinese artist Liu Bolin's Hiding In The City performance/photographic series in a book entitled Liu Bolin.
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