REVIEW: A Slow Burlesque (Silo)

November 18, 2024

Freya Silas Finch’s one-hour solo show leaves me feeling acutely aware of my own gender — like a bandaid I want to tear away yet can’t quite remove despite persistent efforts to pry it off. At the start of A Slow Burlesque Finch addresses the audience: “You’ll be walking down the street five years later, see a man with a […]

REVIEW: How to Throw a Chinese Funeral

October 12, 2023

Kenangan Wangi (Sweet Reminiscence) Alamak!  It’s such a treat to hear authentic Manglish at The Basement Theatre. For the uninitiated, Manglish is the ‘rojak’ (fruit salad) combination of English-Malay-Cantonese-Hokkien-Hindi-Tamil words that typically pepper everyday Malaysian conversations.  And How to Throw a Chinese Funeral’s dialogue epitomises this Malaysian vernacular down to its core.  The play captures a familiar slice of Malaysian […]