• 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

  Decking the walls

  Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 15/02/2017

  » Bangkok's three newest art spaces - ApArt, Future Factory and Most Gallery.

• 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

  The politics of love

  Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 08/09/2016

  » Thanapol Virulhakul, critically-acclaimed stage director and choreographer, has a way of giving space a certain significance. His take is usually minimalistic, the stage bare and his actors assigned with limited set of movements, and it is the relentless repetition of those elements that would slowly make up the storyline and become part of the blow in the end.

• LIFE

  Human suffering takes centrestage

  Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 29/09/2016

  » After a two-year hiatus, playwright and director Nophand Boonyai is back with his new work Happy New Year Mr. Smith, a play about a divorcee, a person averse to marriage and a celebrity who are entering their 40s.

• LIFE

  Exhibition asks, 'Has happiness returned to Thailand?'

  Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 27/07/2016

  » If "Fear" -- Manit Sriwanichapoom's latest photography and video show, which opened over the past weekend at H Gallery, Tang Contemporary Art and Kathmandu Photo Gallery (and at Yavuz Gallery in Singapore at the end of the month) -- isn't the hottest topic of discussion in the capital's art scene already, it soon will be.

• LIFE

  Picture the words

  Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 22/06/2016

  » What's not to like about director Nawapol Thamrongrattanarit's debut solo exhibition "I Write You A Lot", which just opened last weekend at Bangkok Citycity Gallery?

• LIFE

  Sense behind the madness

  Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 08/07/2016

  » One is either enthralled, frustrated or confused by Apichatpong Weerasethakul's films. It's possibly a reflex of a complex and conflicting emotion -- you are not sure whether it's yourself as an audience or Apichatpong as a filmmaker that inspire those reactions.

• LIFE

  Don't be afraid to have fun

  Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 11/02/2016

  » With cartoons, it's her recreation of incidents -- with simple drawings and snappy dialogue -- which draw our attention to the significance that lies hidden in the mundane. With her illustrations -- oftentimes incredibly detailed and reminiscent of Martin Handford's Where's Wally? series -- there is an in-depth knowledge about Thai society and characters of people that is colourfully imbued.

• LIFE

  The concept of theatre vs reality

  Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 14/05/2015

  » Strictly speaking, this review of Between, a stage performance by Nikorn Saetang and Ben Busarakamwong that ended on Tuesday, can only be 50% legitimate. Staged both at Crescent Moon Space and B-Floor Room, as well as the interval space between the two theatres, the acting by Nikorn and Ben took place simultaneously in separate rooms, and the audience had to make a choice, through the show's 70-minute span, when and which actor they wanted to see.

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