Texts November 2007

Crikey; a very well-balanced month in terms of genre, but I've been reading way too many munjen men. Also, not much good drama or art exhibited this time round.

*POETRY*
+Danton Remoto’s “Black Silk Pajamas”
Koh Buck Song’s “The Worth of Wonder”
+Cyril Wong’s “tilting their plates to catch the light”

*FICTION*
+Daren Shiau’s “Velouria”
+Anaïs Nin’s “Eros Unbound”
+Tash Aw’s “The Harmony Silk Factory”

*DRAMA*
+Frank Chin’s “The Chickencoop Chinaman/The Year of the Dragon”
+Tony Harrison’s “The Trackers of Oxyrhyncus”

*NON-FICTION*
+Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow’s “A Briefer History of Time”
+Peter Brook’s “The Open Door”
+Carl Honoré’s “In Praise of Slow”

*GRAPHIC TEXTS*
+Brian Wood and Riccardo Burchielli’s “DMZ Vol. 1: On the Ground”
+Neil Gaiman’s “Heliogabalus”
+Howard Cruse’s “Stuck Rubber Baby”

*PERFORMANCES*
+The Flying Circus Project’s “Superintense”
+The Necessary Stage’s “Good People”
Action Theatre’s “Postcards From Rosa”
LaSalle's "The Good Person of Sichuan"

*FILMS*
+Charles Lim's "Wrong Turn"
Friedrich Dalsheim's "The Island of Demons"
+Joris Ivens's "Indonesia Calling"
most of Wong Kar Wai's "2046" until the DVD failed
+Lee Ang's "Lust, Caution"
+Michael Arias's "Tekkonkinkreet"

*EXHIBITIONS*
San Art’s “City Panoramic”
Palani Mohan’s “Vanishing Giants: Elephants of Asia”
Gaffer Studios and Starcap Galleries’ “Mastery in Contemporary Glass”
+Singapore Art Museum’s “From the Everyday to the Imagined: An Exhibition of Indian Art”
Chua Ek Kay’s “Along the River Banks”