Short-Form Cultural Criticism
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Where’s Joshua Ip Going?
Review of ownself say ownself by Joshua Ip (Singapore: Landmark Books, 2024) by Shaik Aqeel Joshua Ip’s latest poetry collection, ownself say ownself, reads like an evolution, condensed into one collection and laid out in satisfying chronology for us. The book is split into Old Work and New Work. The former consists of excerpts from […]
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Hotel: Reflections
by Yap Hao Yang / A five-hour long production, HOTEL opens with a captivating sequence of actors crisscrossing the stage with urgency, unpacking suitcases and getting dressed. The opening spectacle foretells the play’s key theme of transience, but the music is also reminiscent of the bar-bell, giving the audience a palpable sense that theatre was […]
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