In this relation, the process by which Ōta and his group devised this theatre piece should be explained. Instead of writing a complete script, Ōta decided on the content of the scenes and their sequence and then chose artistic materials appropriate for those scenes to stimulate the imagination of the actors. These source materials were […]
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I hiked in Horton Plains in August. At the start of the trail, rangers inspect your belongings forbidding anything plastic. In front of me were two young men, probably Taiwanese judging from their accent. You follow them, my driver repeated for the 10th time. At first his nagging was cute, but on day 4, I couldn’t take it and brushed him […]
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The girl nods. She thinks she knows what he means. The boy continues. “I think that’s one of the most painful experiences a person can have in life. I feel so sad and it hurts so much that I wish I could just go ahead and die, seriously. Actually I take that back, it’s not […]
Read more "About Love and Living"Ah Huat: Me, a pathfinder. And which is my own path? What road am I travelling on, where am I heading? The sky. And you, the moon. You look as if you are always up there. It’s hard to imagine that you’ll ever wane, ever eclipse. And the stars, so fixed in the sky. Such […]
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I’m so happy to be back in Bangkok for the Bangkok Theatre Festival for the second year. You might have read about my rave of the Festival in The Straits Times. Last year I spent a few days here but I decided this year that I would spend a bit more time AND try to […]
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Tan Shou Chen 