Kafka’s Chimp Apes as Human in ‘Red Peter’
BANGKOK — Would you stop being what you are if it meant survival? Animalism, absurdity and adaptation collide on stage in a surreal physical performance for four days in Bangkok.
Playwright Takes Dark Turn in Puppet Production ‘Little Red’
BANGKOK — Three centuries after Charles Perrault committed fairy tale to page in “Little Red Riding Hood,” a Thai dramatist is adapting it to puppet theater with allusions the next month’s 40th anniversary of the 1976 Massacre.
Czech Film Finds Nothing Fair in ‘Fair Play’
BANGKOK — The Rio Games last month showed drugs in competitive sports remain a problem four decades after doping became a matter of international brinkmanship during the Cold War.
No Glass Ceiling in Dream Factory For These Women
BANGKOK — Patricia Arquette took on the wage gap in her 2015 Oscar acceptance speech, and “Hunger Games” star Jennifer Lawrence called it out in an impassioned essay. Apart from wages, the women of Hollywood struggle with unequal opportunity, ageism and racial inequity.
Looking at You: Candid Passions on Display at Neilson Hays Library
BANGKOK — With a belief that although humans are alone inside, they can connect to others through mutual feelings, 20 portraits and 10 nudes by a German artist will show at a historic library in Silom.
Sex, Drugs, Boredom Tattooed Under Skin of Bangkok’s New Spire (Photos)
BANGKOK — When the VVIPs gathered to applaud Bangkok’s latest monument to achievement Monday night, it’s unlikely they gave thanks to the thousands of men and women who raised it 314 meters into the sky.
‘Mr. Smith’ Asks: Is There Life After 40 in Bangkok?
BANGKOK — At the turn of a year, some might fear aging while others embrace it with grace. The almost-midlife crises of those turning 40 inspired stage director Nophand Boonyai’s latest dark comedy, “Happy New Year Mr. Smith.”
Brash Young Artists Push Limits of Contemporary Art
BANGKOK — Frustrated by censorship, enforced beauty standards and more, five emerging artists want to seize the narrative and show what they are thinking.
Interracial Love, Politics and Dance in ‘Happy Hunting Ground’
BANGKOK — What do Thai women want from German boyfriends? Why do some dream of moving to the West? What do farang men find by paying for love and affection after coming to Thailand? Stereotypes about sex tourism and interracial relationships at various levels will be explored through a physical performance on a Bangkok stage.
Pakistan’s Joyful Jazz Warriors Resist Cultural Annihilation in ‘Song of Lahore’
BANGKOK — To Pakistanis who grew up considering jazz and orchestral sounds as much their culture as anyone’s, the religious and social upheaval threatening to take it away was an attack.
