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Dance and Theatre
Previews, Interviews, and Reviews (yes, and Photos) of Dance and Theatre in Thailand (well, and elsewhere) written by "The Nation" dance and theatre critics
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Saturday , August 30 , 2008
BARE Facts
Posted by dance_and_theatre , Reader : 1045 , 00:08:26   | Category : Theatre 2008  
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 "Plueang" is one of the best university theatre productions in recent memory. First, let’s set the records straight: “Plueang” (literally, "stripping off") is not yet another student theatre production, or one of those extra-curricular activities put on by students who do not study theatre but stage their productions for their friends’ and family’s entertainment. It’s produced, a....


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Wednesday , August 20 , 2008
getting IN TUNE
Posted by dance_and_theatre , Reader : 1096 , 01:25:16   | Category : Dance 2008   Theatre 2008  
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Drama, song, film and more are channelled together for a powerful picture of our tech-savvy times. When globe-trotting dancers and choreographers Jitti Chompee and Sarawanee Tanatanit, award-winning NYU-educated film director Tanon Sattarujawong and renowned glass-harpist Weeraphong Thaweesak collaborated for the first time last August, Bangkok audiences got one of the year's most memorable performan....


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Saturday , August 16 , 2008
Tales of PERSERVERANCE
Posted by dance_and_theatre , Reader : 1049 , 22:00:53   | Category : Theatre 2008  
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Natayasala (Joe Louis) Theater staged their grandest performance ever "Phramahajanaka" and made Thai audiences proud of our national heritage. Although the company moved from their Nonthaburi home to their 300-seat carpeted theatre at Suan Lum Night Bazaar since May 2002, many audiences have been taken them for granted. Despite the fact that they are the country’s only professional traditio....


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CORPORATE SPONSORSHIP needs a RETHINK in Thailand's ARTS scene
Posted by dance_and_theatre , Reader : 992 , 21:17:01   | Category : Theatre 2008  
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If you are running a mega-corporation that rakes in hundreds of millions of baht in profit every fiscal year, would you consider sponsoring commercial performing arts events with city-wide banners, billboards and posters, and nationwide print and TV ads so that your potential customers would see your logos? Or, would you rather sign more checks, in lesser amounts, for smaller not-for-profit, yet equa....


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Sunday , August 10 , 2008
BALLET and BUTOH in BANGKOK
Posted by dance_and_theatre , Reader : 1074 , 20:11:46   | Category : Dance 2008   Theatre 2008  
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The idea of having ballet dancers from the prestigious Paris Opera Ballet dancing on Thai stage sounds rather like a dream as it is unlikely that the world’s oldest national company would mark their tour to a country where non-popular performing arts, especially classical and “elitist” ones, are not widely appreciated. But thanks to Bangkok City Ballet (BCB) under the direction of Japan-born Thailand....


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Saturday , August 9 , 2008
WANTED: little heroes
Posted by dance_and_theatre , Reader : 991 , 16:58:43   | Category : Theatre 2008  
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Kids, meet the Oversleeping Beauty and the Toad Prince - they need your help to save the world!Assoc Prof Pornrat "Kru Oui" Damrhung is a pioneer of children's theatre in Thailand. Although in recent years, most of her works have been attempts at making traditional theatre relevant to today's audience, children's theatre remains a love of her life. The veteran director has published several....


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Friday , August 8 , 2008
REVIEW: AF the Musical JO-JO SAN
Posted by dance_and_theatre , Reader : 3672 , 00:10:58   | Category : Theatre 2008  
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 "AF the Musical: Jo-Jo San" is an Asian minstrel show that’s ridden by marketing strategy, and neither playwriting nor music composition dexterity. In case someone forget: it’s 2008. The heart-wrenching, or tear-jerking, tale of Nagasaki’s world-famous geisha whose suicide proves her true love for her American navy officer husband has already been lauded one of the most politically incorre....


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Thursday , August 7 , 2008
mourning DEATH; celebrating LIFE
Posted by dance_and_theatre , Reader : 1076 , 23:08:59   | Category : Bangkok Festivals 2008  
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Ask anyone who was quick, and affluent, enough to book a ticket to last Wednesday’s concert by Zubin Mehta and the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra (IPO)—respectively, one of the world’s greatest living conductors and busiest orchestras whose unique and strong partnership in spreading peace messages around the world has lasted more than three decades—and the responses would probably be unanimous. It’s t....


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Sunday , August 3 , 2008
LESS ABSURD than the original
Posted by dance_and_theatre , Reader : 1012 , 00:12:03   | Category : Theatre 2008  
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For many drama students and playgoers all over the world, Samuel Beckett’s “Waiting for Godot”, a masterpiece of absurdist drama, has probably been one of the most difficult plays to understand—leave alone enjoying.A commonly heard observation is that you may enjoy the play more when you get older and realize that there’s a lot in life which you can never make sense of. So, don’t bother twisting your....


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Friday , August 1 , 2008
FILM and MUSIC bring MEMORIES to LIFE
Posted by dance_and_theatre , Reader : 1023 , 00:57:52   | Category : Singapore Arts Festival 2008  
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For a country that has imported performing arts events almost year-round, the arts festival organizer should perhaps look, much further and harder, for a kind of programme that would unlikely be presented outside such a privileged stage as a festival, even though that may translate as less excitement and lower ticket sales.  Such is probably the case for the Asian premiere of “Sonos ‘E Memoria: In th....


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