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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Friday , October 31 , 2008

STUNNING visuals

Posted by dance_and_theatre , Reader : 907 , 09:32:05 | Category : Miscellaneous

“Season of Photography”, a major exhibition of the most thrilling works of world-renowned artists, makes its appearance for first time in Singapore. Currently, the National Museum of Singapore (NMS) hosts masterpieces of two photographers and one visual artist that remarkably portray the dysfunctional modern lives. Taiwanese photographer Chien-Chi Chang, in “Doubleness”, examines the complex relation....

“Season of Photography”, a major exhibition of the most thrilling works of world-renowned artists, makes its appearance for first time in Singapore. Currently, the National Museum of Singapore (NMS) hosts masterpieces of two photographers and one visual artist that remarkably portray the dysfunctional modern lives. Taiwanese photographer Chien-Chi Chang, in “Doubleness”, examines the complex relation....

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caught in a DEATHTRAP!

Posted by dance_and_theatre , Reader : 769 , 09:15:21 | Category : Theatre 2008

Bangkok Community Theatre’s last production of the year promises to kill us with its deadly comic timing. American playwright Ira Levin’s masterpiece “Deathtrap” involves Sidney, a thriller writer who’s running out of ideas. When his protégé Clifford submits a far better script, he jokes with his wife Myra that he should kill Clifford and steal the plot. In his Connecticut living room, ....

Bangkok Community Theatre’s last production of the year promises to kill us with its deadly comic timing. American playwright Ira Levin’s masterpiece “Deathtrap” involves Sidney, a thriller writer who’s running out of ideas. When his protégé Clifford submits a far better script, he jokes with his wife Myra that he should kill Clifford and steal the plot. In his Connecticut living room, ....

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Wednesday , October 29 , 2008

The Woman in Black: ACTING tour de FRIGHT

Posted by dance_and_theatre , Reader : 909 , 13:12:30 | Category : Theatre 2008

Thrills and chills may not be abundant, but stellar performance brings much suspense and meaning to a ghost play. It’s Halloween weekend, and Dreambox’s revival of the Thai translation of popular British horror play is packed with enough tricks for this two-hander to bring our two hands together at the curtain call. One of the longest running plays in the history of London’s West End, “The Woman in B....

Thrills and chills may not be abundant, but stellar performance brings much suspense and meaning to a ghost play. It’s Halloween weekend, and Dreambox’s revival of the Thai translation of popular British horror play is packed with enough tricks for this two-hander to bring our two hands together at the curtain call. One of the longest running plays in the history of London’s West End, “The Woman in B....

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Friday , October 24 , 2008

CRACKED in the LAND

Posted by dance_and_theatre , Reader : 794 , 22:27:01 | Category : Theatre 2008

B-Floor Theatre’s new stage work reflects pours lights into the fissures in Thai society. Inspired by the late Kanokpong Songsomphan’s 1996 S.E.A. Write winning collection of short stories of the same title, B-Floor Theatre’s engaging work “The Other Land” (or in Thai “Phaendin Uen”) cannot be timelier. Though they are more than 12 years old now, these tales of social conflict in the three troubled ....

B-Floor Theatre’s new stage work reflects pours lights into the fissures in Thai society. Inspired by the late Kanokpong Songsomphan’s 1996 S.E.A. Write winning collection of short stories of the same title, B-Floor Theatre’s engaging work “The Other Land” (or in Thai “Phaendin Uen”) cannot be timelier. Though they are more than 12 years old now, these tales of social conflict in the three troubled ....

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Wednesday , October 22 , 2008

Are you ELIGIBLE for any CONCESSION?

Posted by dance_and_theatre , Reader : 880 , 01:36:03 | Category : Dance 2008 Theatre 2008 da:ns 2008, Esplanade Melbourne, October 2008

"Are you eligible for any concession?”, the box office person at Melbourne’s Malthouse Theatre asked me on the phone last Monday morning when I was purchasing a ticket to watch a play, whose allocation for media tickets had run out. Admittedly, I was stunned. Usually, it’s the other way around: we audiences have to ask—or, in many cases, beg for discounts, and, in some cases, drink a certain b....

"Are you eligible for any concession?”, the box office person at Melbourne’s Malthouse Theatre asked me on the phone last Monday morning when I was purchasing a ticket to watch a play, whose allocation for media tickets had run out. Admittedly, I was stunned. Usually, it’s the other way around: we audiences have to ask—or, in many cases, beg for discounts, and, in some cases, drink a certain b....

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unFulFilling Fest

Posted by dance_and_theatre , Reader : 871 , 00:59:33 | Category : Dance 2008 Bangkok Festivals 2008

Bangkok’s 10th International Festival of Dance and Music has drawn its curtain, yet scoring far from 10 out of 10, despite the fact that, like in the previous years, it has breathed much life into the performing arts scene here. After an unfulfilling classical ballet weekend, contemporary productions as well as traditional showcases were also not real treats to the eyes and minds. Although the perfor....

Bangkok’s 10th International Festival of Dance and Music has drawn its curtain, yet scoring far from 10 out of 10, despite the fact that, like in the previous years, it has breathed much life into the performing arts scene here. After an unfulfilling classical ballet weekend, contemporary productions as well as traditional showcases were also not real treats to the eyes and minds. Although the perfor....

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AWED in OZ

Posted by dance_and_theatre , Reader : 847 , 00:28:51 | Category : Dance 2008 Theatre 2008 Melbourne, October 2008

“Melbourne International Arts Festival 2008” kicked off on Thursday, October 9 evening with a free outdoor concert at Federation Square in the middle of the city, featuring diverse Melbourne-based musicians with various cultural backgrounds, such as the Public Opinion Afro Orchestra, a collective of local African, jazz, and hip hop artists; a Middle Eastern group Unified Gecko and a Middle Eastern ....

“Melbourne International Arts Festival 2008” kicked off on Thursday, October 9 evening with a free outdoor concert at Federation Square in the middle of the city, featuring diverse Melbourne-based musicians with various cultural backgrounds, such as the Public Opinion Afro Orchestra, a collective of local African, jazz, and hip hop artists; a Middle Eastern group Unified Gecko and a Middle Eastern ....

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Tuesday , October 21 , 2008

THE THREEPENNY OPERA

Posted by dance_and_theatre , Reader : 851 , 21:25:12 | Category : Theatre 2008

NUNi (Never Underestimate New Ideas) has a few new ideas in their new production of Bertolt Brecht’s timeless classic. “We picked it last year for the Bangkok Theatre Festival 2008. We were looking for something more 'theatrical' [instead of ‘operatic’] fit for the festival,” says NUNi’s co-artistic director Pattarasuda Anuman Rajadhon.“But it turned out we couldn't get it in the Festival due to the ....

NUNi (Never Underestimate New Ideas) has a few new ideas in their new production of Bertolt Brecht’s timeless classic. “We picked it last year for the Bangkok Theatre Festival 2008. We were looking for something more 'theatrical' [instead of ‘operatic’] fit for the festival,” says NUNi’s co-artistic director Pattarasuda Anuman Rajadhon.“But it turned out we couldn't get it in the Festival due to the ....

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MUSICAL REVIEW: Khanglang Pharb

Posted by dance_and_theatre , Reader : 821 , 19:24:56 | Category : Theatre 2008

When you go to a brand-new local musical play whose lyrics and music you have never heard of and yet you can hum along as if you are already familiar with it and then for the next two and a half hours you feel like you are being taken along the same old emotional route again, you probably have all the rights to complain. That is especially when you paid 2,000 baht for a ticket, and you cannot apply f....

When you go to a brand-new local musical play whose lyrics and music you have never heard of and yet you can hum along as if you are already familiar with it and then for the next two and a half hours you feel like you are being taken along the same old emotional route again, you probably have all the rights to complain. That is especially when you paid 2,000 baht for a ticket, and you cannot apply f....

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Monday , October 13 , 2008

PATTI SMITH and MORE in MELBOURNE International Arts Festival 2008

Posted by dance_and_theatre , Reader : 810 , 20:43:00 | Category : Dance 2008 Theatre 2008 Melbourne, October 2008

With a wide variety of arts, ranging from dance, theatre, music, etc, the profoundly curated “Melbourne International Arts Festival 2008” is making this Australia’s Garden City a contemporary arts hub and transporting us to ecstatic states of being once again, at least for 17 days. “Rather than going around the world and looking at finished works that are on the stage, in the museum, or in the galler....

With a wide variety of arts, ranging from dance, theatre, music, etc, the profoundly curated “Melbourne International Arts Festival 2008” is making this Australia’s Garden City a contemporary arts hub and transporting us to ecstatic states of being once again, at least for 17 days. “Rather than going around the world and looking at finished works that are on the stage, in the museum, or in the galler....

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Wednesday , October 8 , 2008

FESTs FINALEs

Posted by dance_and_theatre , Reader : 853 , 10:06:38 | Category : Dance 2008 Bangkok Festivals 2008

Bangkok’s 10th International Festival of Dance and Music is coming to the end, and you would not want to miss these two dance productions.Spain’s top award “Premio Nacional de Danza” recipient and internationally acclaimed star Sara Baras is back with a new production “Sabores” (“Falvours”), in which she blends myriads of styles—tango, seguiriya, martinete, zambra, taranto, burelia, and more—with pas....

Bangkok’s 10th International Festival of Dance and Music is coming to the end, and you would not want to miss these two dance productions.Spain’s top award “Premio Nacional de Danza” recipient and internationally acclaimed star Sara Baras is back with a new production “Sabores” (“Falvours”), in which she blends myriads of styles—tango, seguiriya, martinete, zambra, taranto, burelia, and more—with pas....

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Tuesday , October 7 , 2008

get up and DA:NS

Posted by dance_and_theatre , Reader : 929 , 07:52:52 | Category : Dance 2008 da:ns 2008, Esplanade

Esplanade: Theatres on the Bay proves again that it’s much more than a venue for hire hosting touring productions of musicals. They organize their own performing arts events and festivals year-round, and one of the must-not-misses every October is da:ns—that’s the spelling, and obviously not Singlish. Back in 2006, The Nation was the first Thai media to cover this unique event, now we’re continuing o....

Esplanade: Theatres on the Bay proves again that it’s much more than a venue for hire hosting touring productions of musicals. They organize their own performing arts events and festivals year-round, and one of the must-not-misses every October is da:ns—that’s the spelling, and obviously not Singlish. Back in 2006, The Nation was the first Thai media to cover this unique event, now we’re continuing o....

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