All Entries in the "Reviews" Category
Boeing Boeing: This comedy is still hot
If you want to enjoy a pure and simple comedy, this is it for you.
Paper Boat (novel): Reviewed by Zafar Anjum (S’pore)
Despite its heft and turgidity, Rajat’s first novel is a remarkable work of fiction—it takes you on a tour of a time and a place that reads like a legend, with a cast of characters whose gentleness seem surreal in our insensitive times. Only you have to have the stomach for it.
Theatre Review: Animal Farm—Not just for laughs! (by Zafar Anjum)
As David Hare has said recently, in Stalinist Russia, the most powerful protest you could make was to stage Hamlet. In our globalised land, it could well be George Orwell’s Animal Farm.
No ordinary Oz: A review of Mike Ladd’s latest collection ‘Transit’ by Agnes Meadows
Ladd is an accomplished writer. This is not his first collection, and hopefully it will not be his last.
Exploring roots and routes: Review by Richard Lord
Final verdict? These poems arise from a vision that is adult, mature, seasoned in pain, quiet love and a sense of one’s uneasy place in the universe.
Theatre Review: Model citizens (by Zafar Anjum)
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.
Theatre Review: Jiwo Jiro (Reviewed by Zafar Anjum)
Jiwo Jiro, which means zero soul in Malay, was staged on January 15-16 2010 at the Esplanade Recital Studio as part of the Singapore Fringe Festival ’10.
Theatre Review: — Can Change by Zafar Anjum (S’pore)
Watching The Necessary Stage’s “– Can Change”, the opening play of M1 Singapore Fringe Festival 2010, this reviewer was not sure if the play was to be taken at its face value or one was expected to interpret the whole thing as a lampooning exercise.
Film review: Avatar by Zafar Anjum (S’pore)
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.
Poetry: A Filipino Metamorphosis, review by Chris Mooney-Singh (Spore)
Poetry Review: The Long Lost Startle
Joel M. Toledo
The University of the Philippines Press
Quezon City. (2009)
Php 150.00
US $3.85
Once upon a time there was a poet who woke up and found himself turned into ‘’some kind of animal’’. It was dog-like with sharp teeth, whiskers, a hand becoming a paw, a voice with a ‘’keening sound’’; it [...]
