Articles
EVENT COVERAGE
Para Limes
Michael Puett —An Alternative to the Self, Economy, and Society
♦ Event coverage of a talk given by Dr Michael Puett on Chinese philosophy as part of the Singapore Platform for East-West Dialogue.
Q&A and Relections on Michael Puett’s Talk
♦ Second part of the event coverage and a personal response to the points mentioned in the talk.
The Italian Quarter
Commedia Dell’Arte – Singapore Style
♦ Event coverage of a Commedia Dell’Arte presentation by Marco Luly and Roger Jenkins at Library @ Esplanade.
The Kent Ridge Common
Book Launch: The Tommy Koh Reader
♦ Event coverage of the launch of The Tommy Koh Reader: Favourite Essays and Lectures.
An Evening at the Chinese Theatre Circle
♦ A feature on the Chinese Theatre Circle, a local Cantonese opera troupe.
Notes on “Material Culture of Bukit Brown Cemetery”
♦ Event coverage of “Material Culture of Bukit Brown Cemetery” by Dr Lai Chee Kien.
INTERVIEWS
ArtsEquator
Reframing The Mental Health Discourse ‘With Time’
♦ Interview with Chng Yi Kai on his playwriting and directorial debut, With Time.
Club Spirit (Magazine for Serangoon Gardens Country Club)
Larry Lai Recalls (August-September 2019 issue)
♦ Interview with veteran DJ Larry Lai about his career with Rediffusion.
From Neverland to Serangoon Gardens (August-September 2019 issue)
♦ Interview with director Ivan Heng and playwright Thomas Lim about W!ld Rice’s upcoming production, Peter Pan in Serangoon Gardens.
Relive your Childhood (August-September 2019 issue)
♦ Interview with TJ Taylor, artistic director of Sing’Theatre, on the company’s upcoming production, A Spoonful of Sherman.
Striking Gold (June-July 2019 issue)
♦ Interview with national bowler, Arianne Tay.
August Man Magazine
A Fine Eye (September 2014)
♦ Interview with fine art photographer, Lalin Jinasena, ahead of his exhibition at Raffles Hotel.
The Kent Ridge Common
UpFront! With Faith Ng, Playwright of Normal
♦ Interview with Faith Ng about her play, Normal, staged by Checkpoint Theatre.
Young & W!ld Reboot
♦ Feature on the third cohort of Young & W!ld
Upfront! with Oon Shu An, Actress in #UnicornMoment
♦ Interview with playwright-actor Oon Shu An on her play, #UnicornMoment.
FEATURES
Club Spirit (Magazine for Serangoon Gardens Country Club)
A Dream of a Ship (August-September 2019 issue)
♦ Feature on Genting Dream cruise to encourage members to sign up for the trip.
Give in to the Dark Side (June-July 2019 issue)
♦ Feature on a series of events called After Dark that the club is organising.
Multi-Colourism for National Day (June-July 2019 issue)
♦ Feature on the club’s upcoming National Day celebrations.
REVIEWS
The Kent Ridge Common
Joanna Wong: An Idomitable Life, An Operatic Legacy
♦ A review of the biography of Cantonese opera doyenne, Joanna Wong.
Symbal Magazine
A Review of In My Mother’s House
♦ A review of In My Mother’s House by Filipino writer, Joni Cham
Poetry
Beginnings, Symbal Magazine (Issue 1)
A Spectrum Framed, Eunoia Review
Meetings Unmet, Eastlit (October 2013)
Gypsies’ Lament: Songs of Our Fathers, Eastlit (October 2013)
Quarter-life Crisis, Malaise (Issue 1), Print
Prose
Perservation, Journal of Microliterature
Panels / Talks / Discussions
2017: “In The Living Room: Year in Reviews”, Centre 42
♦ I looked back on Singapore’s theatre scene in 2017 with my fellow reviewers.
2015: “Reviewing Rituals”, Centre 42
♦ My fellow reviewers and I share some of our habits when it comes to reviewing shows in a closed-door discussion with the new batch of citizen reviewers.
Isaac Tan 