Texts July 2008

Bad plays, bad art. Good books.

*POETRY*
+Yosano Akiko's "River of Stars"
Shuntaro Tanikawa's "Naked"
Toh Hsien Min’s “Means to an End”
+Octavio Paz’s “A Tale of Two Gardens”

*FICTION*
+Shamini Flint's "Criminal Minds"
+Tan Teck Howe’s “The Secret Goldfish and Other Follies”
+Ursula LeGuin’s “A Wizard of Earthsea”
+Will Self’s “Design Faults of the Volvo 760 Turbo”
+Diana Wynne Jones’s “The Game”

*DRAMA*
+Georg Büchner's "Woyzeck"
+William Shakespeare’s “The Comedy of Errors”
+David Hare’s “Stuff Happens”
Eric Bogosian’s “subUrbia”

*NON-FICTION*
+John Parker and Richard Rathbone’s "African History: A Very Short Introduction"
+Mo Tzu’s “Basic Writings”
+Natalie Angier’s “The Canon: A Whirligig Tour of the Frontiers of Science”
+Fareed Zakaria’s “The Post-American World”

*GRAPHIC TEXTS*
+James Spada's "Romantic Male Nude"
+Hergé’s “The Land of Black Gold”
+ “Old Master Q, Collection 15”

*MIXED-GENRE COLLECTIONS*
+"Quarto '07-'08"
+Tony Kushner's "Thinking About the Longstanding Problems of Virtue and Happiness”

*PERFORMANCES*
+Upright Citizens' Brigade's "School Night"
Duncan Sheik and Steven Sater's"Spring Awakening"
World-In-Theatre’s “Macbeth”
Action Theatre’s “Mama’s Wedding”
+Studio Festi's "The Dancing Sky"
Takayuki Fujimoto, Tsuyoshi Shirai, Takao Kawaguchi, Takuya Minami, Daito Manabe, Satoshi Horii, Seiichi Saito, Motoi Ishibashi, Masaki Teruoka, Noriko Kitamura's ”True”
SPEKTR!
Venzha, Choy Ka Fai and Zulkifle Mahmod's "ISEA2008 Closing Performances"

*EXHIBITIONS*
+New Museum's "2008 Altoids Awards"
STPI’s “Matisse: The Master”
Chan Mei Hsien, Chew Yi Ni, Koh Xue ting, Ong Xiao Yun, Michelle Tan and Tan Chui Min's "Missexpectations"
The Substation's "Cloudland"
National Museum's "
+"ISEA2008 Juried Exhibition"

*FILM AND VIDEO*
+Guillermo del Toro's “Hellboy II: The Golden Army”
+Q. Allan Brocka’s “Rick and Steve: The Happiest Gay Couple in the World”
+Tang Huang’s “Beauty Parade/Tiyu Huanghou”