(Oct25)
New Arts Festival Chief wants an "arts Olympics".
Chap a Cultural Medallion recipient, late forties theatre
director.
As anywhere else on the global art circuit, the art chief is wary of "art fatigue", keen to "move away from giving the Sing audience more entertainment and consumerism; what he calls "use and throw attitude…”
Some stamina is going to be needed by the local audience as the former three week stretch of the festival has now become six, book-ended by National Day on August 9 and the F1 "extravaganza". Racing against the iconic Singaporean sky-line as close to art as one can get in the local parley here.
Otherwise, blockbuster productions:
As anywhere else on the global art circuit, the art chief is wary of "art fatigue", keen to "move away from giving the Sing audience more entertainment and consumerism; what he calls "use and throw attitude…”
Some stamina is going to be needed by the local audience as the former three week stretch of the festival has now become six, book-ended by National Day on August 9 and the F1 "extravaganza". Racing against the iconic Singaporean sky-line as close to art as one can get in the local parley here.
Otherwise, blockbuster productions:
"Some dream names and productions he
tossed out during the chat... includ(ing) the Berliner Ensemble, the German
theatre company created by Bertold Brecht in 1949, the Russian Bolshoi and
Kirov... hopefully securing deals for David Byrne's new musical about Imelda
Marcos, titled Here Lives Love, and perhaps even a Japanese kabuki
performance."
(Page 6, Wednesday 15 May 2013, Straits Times. Usual mid-week condo porn.)
As preparation here, a slow pencil-in-hand reading of the OUP secondhand P/B Plato's Defence of Socrates, picked up from the auntie at Bras Basah for $6.90.
(Page 6, Wednesday 15 May 2013, Straits Times. Usual mid-week condo porn.)
As preparation here, a slow pencil-in-hand reading of the OUP secondhand P/B Plato's Defence of Socrates, picked up from the auntie at Bras Basah for $6.90.
Great theatre ready-made, were the old guy not so infamously ugly and the turns
of mind so challenging.
Even the threat of capital punishment fails to cow the
crusty old truth-speaker to power.
An adaptation to local conditions with some
crafty costuming—judges Men in White; Workers Party balloons; shadowy
back-of-stage puppet-master in profile, with some audible mumbles interspersed...
The giant inflatable white Bunny has been brought out of storage and returned
to its alfalfa patch out front of SAM—the Singapore Art Museum at Dhoby Ghaut,
opposite the Singapore National Gallery. Late last week there had been no sign.
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