Bats Theatre
June 16-July 1 | Reviewed by Nick Henry

IN ITS TWELFTH year running, Young and Hungry brings us a fresh series of one-act plays for young actors. The three plays; How to live in a world full of terrorists, Generator and Butt Ugly are performed in sequence each night at Bats Theatre. This intrepid reviewer did the marathon and went to all three.

Downstage
June 10-July 8 | Reviewed by Melody Nixon

COMPLEX IN structure and the level of engagement it expects from viewers, Edward Albee’s The Goat or Who is Sylvia? may be rewarding for some and disappointing for others.

In an almost full house on opening night, (in which only one member of the audience was snoring) this awarding winning play confused and quizzed, and ultimately caused the more outspoken viewers to comment “Well, what on earth was that all about?”

Singapore Arts Festival 2006
June 15-16 | Reviewed by Imogen Neale

WITHOUT restrictions we can not experience enlightenment, freedom or some existential state of creative absolutism. It’s an ironic concept; given that your arguing that something can, or does, come from the existence of its opposite. Indeed, the concept plays directly back into Hegel’s Master Slave dichotomy; without the slave there is no master, without the master, there is no slave. They need each other to exist.

Singapore Arts Festival 2006
June 13-14 | Reviewed by Imogen Neale

GHASSAN ZAQTAN, a Palestinian writer and academic once told a visiting American academic, Chris Keulemans, that if he wanted to understand Palestine (and thus Israel and Palestine and Israel), he would have to come and visit. Seeing it seems, is still believing.

Herald Theatre, THE EDGE®
June 7-23 | Reviewed by Imogen Neale

CHEKHOV in four parts; sound exciting? Perhaps not. But, before you put that down to the simple fact that it’s a Chekohvian play, or quartet of plays, and therefore dry and dramatic, pause a second and try this; perhaps Chekhov was actually a comedic script writer. Perhaps he wanted you to chuckle rather than cry. Perhaps he wanted extroverted laughter rather than introverted self-reflection. Or, maybe, perhaps he was very ambitious and aimed to achieve both.

Downstage
June 2-3 | Reviewed by Ewan Kingston

Late Laughs is an ingenious idea: the audience receives four comedians plus an MC all warmed up rather than worn out by their shows that were being performed earlier in the night. The comedians get a near-full house, containing the receptive sort of audience one might expect on a Friday night after 10pm. Not a show for the children or those that believe South Park and the "bugger" ad on television have threatened our souls.

Opera House
May 25 | Reviewed by Steve Pepper

SOME comedians have a message to communicate in their comedy. Jimeoin is the first to admit he doesn’t have a message: he just tells jokes. And yes his jokes are unique and hilarious but his show missed the oomph of a polished and structured routine.