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From Punggol mini-mart to HDB void deck: Five arts groups taking their work into unusual spaces
September 9, 2026, The Straits Times
SINGAPORE – 2026 could be the banner year for what can be loosely termed “social arts” or “community arts”, with several groups making major moves. These replace the traditional painting or theatre production with more long-term projects in residential areas or with underprivileged communities. This changing practice more explicitly tackles…
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Claire Teo’s MONSTRESS an empathetic window into unseen struggles and horrors
September 5, 2026, The Straits Times
Despite the play’s title Monstress, this is neither a play about saints and monsters nor a straightforward form of horror. The title’s neologism recalls Australian feminist Barbara Creed’s idea of the “monstrous-feminine” – how women’s sexuality and maternal traits are construed as monstrous – but is reinterpreted through the lens…
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Claire Teo’s Monstress finds troubled Medeas and Medusas in a S’pore HDB estate
July 8, 2026, The Straits Times
The vengeful Greek tales of Medea and Medusa have in recent years been rehabilitated globally as feminist sagas of justified rage. Now, Singapore performer Claire Teo, who is blind, has created a localised version full of shock and drama, set in an HDB estate. Far from jumping on a bandwagon,…
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ART:DIS’s YEAR ZERO is the SIFA 2026 production that refuses comfortable theatre
May 14, 2026, Catch
We often seek the theatre as an escape from the stress of everyday life. But in YEAR ZERO: Disability Redefined by ART:DIS (Arts & Disability Singapore) and the Singapore International Festival of Arts, the stage becomes a place where the cringe of exclusion is not smoothed over, but scrutinised, inviting…