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The Metamorphosis
Life, Amitha Amranand, Published on 20/08/2015
» What would you do if you woke up one morning to find out that your own child had turned into a robot? How would you interact and coexist with something that speaks, thinks and feels like a human being yet does not look in any way human, not even a living creature?
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Life on the small stage
Life, Amitha Amranand, Published on 13/05/2015
» Three new English-speaking theatre companies in Bangkok make a name for themselves.
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Double trouble
Life, Amitha Amranand, Published on 22/10/2015
» The story of Eng and Chang Bunker, better known as the Siamese twins, is the subject of an ambitious musical by the College of Music, Mahidol University.
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Gung-ho newcomers and tireless veterans
Life, Amitha Amranand, Published on 23/11/2017
» And yet another Bangkok Theatre Festival (BTF) has come and gone, almost in a flash.
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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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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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Kiss and make up?
Life, Amitha Amranand, Published on 16/10/2014
» On the page, sentences in Cloture De L’amour (Love’s End) snap off arbitrarily, words tumbling into the next line and the next. There is no real beginning or end to sentences, no capitalisation, no full stops, no commas. Onstage, a man and a woman try to end to their relationship with this same cascade of words.
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Many shades of grey
Life, Amitha Amranand, Published on 06/02/2014
» Last year, Crescent Moon Theatre's Project 1/4 gathered four directors together to direct four short plays written by Orada Lelanuja. Each of the plays featured two characters who speak to the audience and not to each other, each telling their own side of the story, never looking at one another a wide emotional gap between them. They eventually find a way towards each other, closing that gap.
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Setting the stage for change
Life, Amitha Amranand, Published on 18/12/2013
» As more and more people fall victim to Thailand's censorship laws _ and as the political divide deepens _ the local theatre scene continues to flourish. It is easily the artistic field least supported by the state, and receives little to no corporate sponsorship. As a result, theatre artists have mostly escaped the state censors' radar _ compared to, say, film _ and are mainly free from creating work to fulfil nationalistic, ultra-royalist agendas in order to obtain funding. Thus, theatre is probably the most politically minded among all forms of artistic and cultural expression in Thailand.
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Whirlwind of history
Life, Amitha Amranand, Published on 10/10/2013
» To commemorate the 40th anniversary of the Oct 14, 1973, student uprising, B-Floor Theatre and the students from Thammasat University's Faculty of Fine and Applied Arts journey into the past, scrutinise the present and look to the future in the spirited, moving Typhoon (The Remains).
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