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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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    Keeping an eye on global affairs

    B Magazine, Ezra Kyrill Erker, Published on 05/02/2012

    » Anna Coren is an anchor and correspondent for CNN International, and hosts World Report, broadcast live every weekday from CNN's Asia-Pacific headquarters in Hong Kong. Although she made a name for herself in "tabloid" television in Australia, she is now the regional face of the international 24-hour news network. She reported on last year's red shirt riots, has interviewed former prime minister Abhisit Vejjajiva among a host of world leaders and was in Bangkok at the end of last year for a week of "Eye on Thailand" programming.

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    Cheering The Underdog

    Life, Yanapon Musiket, Published on 08/02/2012

    » When Luke Cassady-Dorion speaks Thai, he immediately charms most Thais he talks to with his surprising fluency and Thai-at-heart personality. And last month, as a documentary film-maker, Cassady-Dorion impressed Thai audiences with his debut film that every Thai should be proud of.

  • LIFE

    Sek on road to reform, Annie orphan saga ends, Fluke takes a chance

    News, Mae Moo, Published on 12/02/2012

    » Sek Loso on high road to recovery Rocker Sek Loso is back home with his family, after the hospital where he was being treated for drug addiction decided to release him as an out-patient.

  • LIFE

    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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    Embracing anonymity

    Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 15/02/2012

    » Over the years it's become something of a cliche: Isabelle Huppert is a small woman who's built up an illustrious career by playing emotionally powerful roles _ roles so big in attitude that we tend to forget the size of the actress playing them. She's played Madame Bovary; she's played the amoral mother in a film based on a George Bataille novel; and she's probably best known to Thai audiences as the intensely masochistic Erika Kohut in The Piano Teacher.

  • LIFE

    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.

  • LIFE

    Cultural Crossroads

    Guru, Published on 17/02/2012

    » MAB: Music & Art Fest, Bangkok Art & Culture Centre (BACC), Feb 18-19

  • LIFE

    Annie sticks to her guns, Pingpong comes clean, PIMP up your boyfriend

    News, Mae Moo, Published on 19/02/2012

    » Outspoken director Poj Anon says his legal battle with an actress stemming from the Film Rattapoom paternity row is likely to carry on, even if the main parties to the dispute have now settled.

  • LIFE

    Iranians overjoyed at Oscar win

    AFP, Published on 27/02/2012

    » Iranians took to the Internet and mobile phones on Monday to declare their pride and joy at their country's first win at the Oscars _ and at the speech by triumphant director Asghar Farhadi putting culture above politics.

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