Theatre review

Theatre review

Puppet stars in family-friendly stage adaptation of Roald Dahl’s anti-bullying tale The BFG

The BFG first premiered at Stratford-upon-Avon.

Theatre review

Teater Ekamatra’s La Luna a crowd-pleasing, if simplistic, fable

Teater Ekamatra's La Luna, commissioned by the Esplanade, is an adaptation of the film of the same name that was Singapore’s 2025 entry for Best International Feature Film at the Oscars.

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Secondary: The Musical asks tough questions of Singapore’s educational system and meritocracy

Secondary: The Musical by Checkpoint Theatre was first staged in 2024.

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Lao Jiu: The Musical’s evergreen appeal with universal story of youthful idealism and identity

sflao04 - The Theatre Practice restages its popular Lao Jiu: The Musical. CREDIT AND COPYRIGHT: TUCKYS PHOTOGRAPHY

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Stage adaptation of Murakami’s End Of The World And Hard-Boiled Wonderland values beauty over pain

Tatsuya Fujiwara and Misato Morita in End Of The World And Hard-Boiled Wonderland.

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Constellations a fizzy multiverse romance made sweeter by chemistry of two leads

Juliana Kassim Chan and Marwyn Ho in Constellations.

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Nine Years Theatre finds menace and fun in flawed source material God Of Carnage

(From left) Mia Chee, Oon Shu An, Cavin Soh and Tay Kong Hui pummel one another in Yasmina Reza's God Of Carnage.

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Sight Lines’ Lord Of The Flies turns cautionary tale into two hours of shouty theatrics

Sight Lines has adapted William Golding's classic work Lord Of The Flies for the stage.

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Force Majeure’s band of unfulfilled artist siblings aptly opens Pangdemonium’s finale season

London-based, Singapore-born playwright Stephanie Street's Force Majeure transposes Chekhov's Three Sisters (1901) into a story of privileged artist siblings withered by life in a cultural backwater amid profound global changes.

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Charmingly chaotic Tall Tales: Bananas & Ang Ku Kuehs tells weird and whimsical fables for adults

sftall08 - Bananas & Ang Ku Kueh is a collaboration between Oliver Chong of Singapore’s The Finger Players and Wang Chia-Ming of Taiwan’s Shakespeare’s Wild Sisters Group.

CREDIT AND COPYRIGHT: CRISPIAN CHAN

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