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Impersonal charisma
Life, Amitha Amranand, Published on 16/09/2016
» Performer and director Ladda Kongdach of Crescent Moon Theatre has quietly impressed Bangkok theatregoers for a few years with her focused, subtle performances, often in supporting roles and sometimes playing several roles in the same production. In her latest work, Parallel [Between The Lines], her second solo show (and first full-length), the artist takes us into her parallel universe to explore the notion of self and another self.
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Interpreting the Oct 6 atrocity
Life, Amitha Amranand, Published on 22/09/2016
» Theatre artists continue their commemorations of the upcoming 40th anniversary of the Oct 6, 1976, Thammasat University massacre. Last week, B-Floor Theatre director Teerawat Mulvilai rolled out Fundamental, another powerful dance theatre production that brings the shocking images captured by Neal Ulevich to life and into the present.
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Dragon's Heart returns
Life, Amitha Amranand, Published on 26/08/2016
» Musicals about the lives of Thai defenders of democracy and human rights have come to define director and playwright Pradit Prasartthong's body of work since he founded the Anatta Theatre Troupe in 2012. He's imagined the intimate and personal moments of the late writer Sriburapa, first lady Poonsuk Banomyong and former rector of Thammasat University and Free Thai Movement member Puey Ungphakorn.
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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 peek into our inner landscape
Life, Amitha Amranand, Published on 24/06/2016
» It's no surprise that stage director, playwright and actor Shogo Tanikawa's plays have a small following in Bangkok. As a writer, the Bangkok-based half-Thai, half-Japanese has a keen sense for quirky details in the mundane; his characters are relatable yet lovable and not-overly strange; his stories are about small moments in the lives of seemingly ordinary people in heartfelt, even sentimental, ways.
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The art of economics
Life, Amitha Amranand, Published on 30/06/2016
» Once again, French director and playwright Pascal Rambert showered the Bangkok audience with words and languages. In his second play in Bangkok, A (Micro) History Of World Economics, Danced, Rambert brought together his own words and the cast's, language of economic theories, the arts and the everyday in Thai, French and English, in movements and in music.
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Going through the grieving process
Life, Amitha Amranand, Published on 09/06/2016
» On the Thai stage, we rarely get to see domestic scenes with nuanced emotional conflicts. No sooner does tension begin to form than it is resolved by a comedic means. In our everyday life, too, Thais prefer to avoid discussion of our emotions. Most Thais don't spend hours in therapy sessions every week. Our first instinct is not to seek out professional help to fix our psychological health.
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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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India takes centre stage
Life, Amitha Amranand, Published on 03/03/2016
» NUNi Productions, a young Thai opera company, has been known to make the genre more digestible for the younger generations and novices. In the hands of versatile director and NUNi co-founder Pattarasuda Anuman Rajadhon, opera suddenly feels malleable and full of possibilities. In the past two years, she and Saran Suebsantiwongse, opera singer and NUNi co-founder, have been putting together the jigsaw puzzle that is Sakuntala.
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Quirky Mahabharata epic that feels just a bit outdated
Life, Amitha Amranand, Published on 03/12/2015
» Literary epics are often treated with pomp and sumptuousness on the stage. Japanese theatre director and writer Hiroshi Koike brings the Mahabharata epic down to earth in his ambitious if clumsy Mahabharata Chapter 2.5.
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