I’ve not seen all the plays that Director Alvin Tan and Playwright Haresh Sharma have done together in the last 20 years but amongst the ones that I have seen, “Model Citizens” is one of their best—honest, direct and biting.
Leaving Bangalore on transfer, we returned and drove by the same street seven years later. Would I spot that hospital between new high rises and glass and aluminium store fronts of India’s fastest growing technology city?
In Avatar, Cameron has turned the focus of this terror inwards: he shows us a mirror in which we, the humans, are the terror for the lives of other planets.
I don’t want to achieve anything through the anthology. I wanted to celebrate the diversity of the writing from the sub-continent and the book does exactly that.
Snapshot, Abuja, Nigeria
From the heights of Zuma Rock, located in neighbouring Niger State or Aso Rock in the very heart of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, the capital city of Nigeria reads like a long, sprawling but sparsely ornamented poem. Abuja was not always the capital city of Nigeria, the baton changed from the first [...]
The brainchild of Jonathan Lim, Chestnuts is Singapore’s longest-running comedy sketch show. After 12 years of no-holds-barred comedy, Chestnuts returns to its birthplace – Jubilee Hall – for a special Xmas edition. This year, we talk to Lim about the humble beginnings of this show and the upcoming installment, Chestnuts Does Christmas: Like a Hard Candy Virgin.
