July 2007 texts

Oy vey. Can't list the plays or things we watched during World Interplay - too many, and it'd be dangerous to judge my friends.

All the same, it's clear I had quite an appetite for drama and non-fic this month.

*POETRY*
Min Lim's “Mining for the Light”
Carol Ann Duffy's “Rapture”
+Christina Rosetti's “Goblin Market and Other Poems”

*FICTION*
Michel Houellebecq's “Lanzarote”
+Monique Truong's “The Book of Salt”

*DRAMA*
Edward Albee's “The Goat, or, Who is Sylvia?”
“Contemporary Australian Plays", including +Hannie Rayson's "Hotel Sorrento", David Williamson's "Dead White Males", +Ron Elisha's "Two", +Wesley Enoch and Deborah Mailman's "The 7 Stages of Grieving", and Keith Robinson and Tony Taylor's "The Popular Mechanicals"
+David Hare's “The Permanent Way”
+Jeff Mellemans and Bert Appermont's "Zaad van Satan"
Elangovan's "Talaq"

*NON-FICTION*
+Anne Bogart's “A Director Prepares: Seven Essays on Art in Theatre”
+Clarissa Oon's “Theatre Life: A History of English-Language Theatre in Singapore Through The Straits Times (1958-2000)"
+Kwok Kian Woon and Teo Han Wue's “Kuo Pao Kun: And Love the Wind and Rain”
+Chuck Palahniuk's “Non-Fiction”
+Iris Chang's “The Rape of Nanking”

*PERFORMANCES*
+Royal Shakespeare Company's "King Lear"
+W!ld Rice's "Happy Endings: Asian Boys Volume 3"
+Dramabox's "Trick or Threat"

*FILMS*
Nicholas Hytner and Alan Bennett's "The History Boys"
Clint Eastwood's "Letters from Iwo Jima"
Steve Anderson's "Meet the Robinsons"
+Satoshi Kon's "Paprika"
+Tan Pin Pin's "Lurve Me Now"
+Wee Li Lin's "Gone Shopping"

*EXHIBITIONS*
Perc Tucker Regional Gallery's "Ailan Currents: Contemporary Printmaking from the Torres Strait", "Soundscapes" and +"Thinkin Quinkan: The Secrets of Cape York"
Tang Mun Kit's "Hibernated Works Re-Engineered +33%"
+National Museums of Singapore and Taiwan's "A Banquet in Stone"
Zainudin bin Samsuri's "Rowing Boat"
Stephanie Cheng, Kenny Lim, Eudora Rusli,Calvin Tan, Tan Seow Wei and Tan Taitien's "Because It's Happy Chaos"
+Singapore Tyler Print Institute's "BMW Young Asian Artists Series: Diversity in Print"
+NUS Museum's "WE" and "Our Way, Contemporary Aboriginal Art from Lockhart River"