Monday, December 01, 2008

November texts!

Around the beginning of the month I felt like all the authors I was reading were women. That got evened out a little eventually.


*POETRY*
+Justin Chin’s “Harmless Medicine”
+Sharanya Manivannan’s “Witchcraft”
Rosaly Puthucheary’s “Footfalls in the Rain”
Ciaran Carson’s “Opera Et Cetera”

*FICTION*
+Cyrano de Bergerac’s “Voyage to the Moon”
+Larry Niven’s “Ringworld”
Eudora Welty’s “The Bride of the Innisfallen and Other Stories”
+Ursula Le Guin’s “The Tombs of Atuan”

*DRAMA*
Robert Yeo and Guy Sherbonne’s “Second Chance”
+Erik Jensen and Jessica Blank’s “The Exonerated”
+Eleanor Wong’s “Invitation to Treat”

*NON-FICTION*
+Audre Lorde’s “Sister Outsider”
+Rachel DeWoskin’s “Foreign Babes in Beijing”
+Simone Weil’s “Letter to a Priest”
+Malcolm Gladwell’s “Outliers”

*GRAPHIC TEXTS*
+Aubrey Collette’s “Sun Tan: The Asian Sensation”
+Naoki Urasawa’s “Monster” Vols 1, 2 and 3
+Donald Barthelme’s “The Slightly Irregular Fire Engine”

*PERFORMANCES*
+The Necessary Stage’s “Gemuk Girls”
Cake Theatre and The Finger Players’s “Flare”
+bits of ”Future of Imagination 5”
DramaBox’s “David the Best!”
+Buds Theatre Company’s “Death and Dancing”
+ACTION Theatre’s “Catching Adam Cheng”
+LaSalle College of the Arts’s “Nunsense” and “Lucky Stiff”
Toy Factory Theatre’s “First Light”
+TischAsia’s “It’s Not the Size That Matters” (well, I was acting in it…)

*EXHIBITIONS*
+Robert Wilson’s “VOOM Portraits”
+Chang Chien-Chi’s “Doubleness”
+Patrick Storey’s “Sometimes A Long Five Miles”
ACS (International)’s “MAPS”
Sculpture Society’s “Off the Pedestal”
Gabrielle Bates and Paul Lau’s “Pattern-Nation”
Singapore Art Museum’s “HEARTLANDS: Home and Nation in the Art of Ong Kim Seng”, +“Korean Art”, +“Japan Media Arts Festival” and +”Is it tomorrow yet?: Highlights from the Daimler Art Collection (1926 - 2006)”

*FILM AND VIDEO*
Michael Wang’s “The Carrot Cake Conversations”
Ma Chu Cheng’s “The Butterfly Lovers”
+Fernando de Meireilles’s “Blindness”
the short films of “Short Circuit 3”
+ Marc Forster‘s “Quantum of Solace”
Yasmin Ahmad’s “Muallaf”

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