Creating Oreste by Ifigenia was an experiment of sorts for me. Almost a month later, after sorting through my own thoughts, stewing in the joys and disappointments, the praise and the putdowns, sit I must to reflect on an experiment that I am not completely confident of. And with candour I proceed. As with all […]
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I have this memory of my grandfather and I. On a Thursday, I was about to leave early from the family’s weekly dinner at my grandfather’s house on Wolskel Road. My grandfather asked where I was going, and for what. I was either performing or rehearsing for a show. Which show was inconsequential, but the […]
Read more "Reflections: Liao Zhai Rocks《聊斋》 (2019上海国际音乐剧节)"I will show you where the planes only fly at night, where they pierce through cloud broken sky. I will show you where teenage girls dance, as if everyone is watching, when really no one is. (We will have an excellent laugh) I will show you where to ride, the best views, seen only when […]
Read more "Pasir Ris Beach, Jan 2018"Closed our joint bank account today, it was fast but I waited 40 mins in line. The teller asks me what I want to do with the account book (It is all I need to close it). I say, would you mind destroying it for me? She says, yes, she will use the machine in […]
Read more "Joint Accounts"I make art because it is soul. Contrast these two phenomena: the mechanisation of life, the deconstruction of life, the mystery of life that science seeks to unlock; that moment of standing on top of a mountain, the moment a baby is born, the first experience of something new. It is easy to forget that […]
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Tan Shou Chen 