Sunday, April 01, 2007

March texts!

This month, I've apparently taken on a predilection for Singaporean and Malaysian women's writing and an interest in public health, as well as a reduced interest in film (possibly due to having to watch Eating Air overandoverandoverandoveragain.

*POETRY*
+Terry Jaensch and Cyril Wong's "Excess Baggage and Claim"
+"John Keats: Poems selected by Andrew Motion"
Charlene Rajendran's "Mangosteen Crumble"
+Sharanya Maivannan's "Iyari"

*FICTION*
+Marquis de Sade's "The Misfortunes of Virtue and Other Early Tales"
Catherine Lim's "The Woman's Book of Superlatives"
+Shan Sa's "The Girl Who Played Go"
+Dave Chua's "Gone Case"
+Shalom Auslander's "Holocaust Tips for Kids and Smite the Heathens, Charlie Brown"

*DRAMA*
+Jocelyn Chua's "Restless and Other Plays"
+Euripides's "Alcestis, Hippolytus, Iphigeneia in Tauris"
Eugene O'Neill's "The Iceman Cometh"

*NON-FICTION*
+Bob Dylan's "Chronicles: Volume One"
Tan Khoon Kiat's "Beyond the Screen: Nurses' Reflections"
"More Than a Calling: Nursing in Singapore since 1885"
+Anthony Bourdain's "Typhoid Mary: An Urban Historical"

*GRAPHIC NOVELS*
+Bill Amend's "Encyclopedias Brown and White"

*PERFORMANCES"
Hwa Chong Junior College's "YAWP"
Action Theatre's "The Swimming Instructor"
+"The 2007 Life! Theatre Awards Presentation
+Action Theatre's "Theatre Idols", including Ovidia Yu's "Hitting (on) Women", Desmond Sim's "The People in the Mirror", Chong Tze Chien's "On Sundays the Kites Come Out to Play" and my own "The Final Temptation of Stamford Raffles"
+Sing'theatre's "No Regrets: A Tribute to Edith Piaf"
+Toy Factory's "Titoudao"
Theatreworks's "Drift Net"
+Ho Tzu Nyen and Fran Borgia's "King Lear: The Avoidance of Love"

*FILM*
Lots of Dani Spies's "Quickbites"
The Substation's "Matters Close to Home", including Li Xiuqi's "Seletar Airbase: Singapore's Secret Garden", +Liew Seng Tat and Zan Azlee's "Tudung", Mauri Pasanen's "Traces", Bran de Rijcker's "Township Jive"
+Todd Stephens's "Another Gay Movie"
+Jack Neo's "Just Follow Law"

*EXHIBITIONS*
NUS Museum's "Objects and Desire"
+Reflections: Paintings by Thomas Yeo"
+Jasson Moss's "Imitative Polyphony: I Am Only Music"
National Museum of Singapore's "Families & Friends: A Singapore Album Exhibition"
Raghu Rai's "Maestros: Masters of Indian Classical Music" and "Earthscapes"
+Sandra Lee's "The Plight of the Ever After"
+Pearl Yang's "Peace of Mind"

2 comments:

Readymade said...

Umm... why do (did?) you have to watch "Eating Air" over and over again?

Ng Yi-Sheng said...

I'm doing a novelisation of the movie, as commissioned by Read Singapore.

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