Let us get the disappointments out of the way: at no point in this play were there exactly one thousand millennials crying. Barring that, the rest of Kenneth Chia and Mitchell Fang’s creation for the M1 Fringe Festival 2018 Fresh Fringe serves a dazzlingly quirky performance in just a little over an hour of performance. Much like the main character, Steven (played by Matthew Fam), One Thousand…

Let us cut to the chase: Patch and Punnet is good stuff. At the time of writing, tickets for the matinee and evening shows on 30 December have not been sold out and this reviewer highly recommends checking this particular show out if you have not done so already. Various theatre companies and productions this year have grappled with the theme of the future with varying degrees of success. Patch…

Parading a Lifetime of Achievements (Being Haresh Sharma by The Necessary Stage and Cake Theatrical Productions)

The stage is bare, somewhat bare, with the lighting set-up visible from the wings and a simple structure fixed upstage that prominently features a wide screen for multimedia projection. At one definitive moment in the play, the multimedia projection zooms in to focus on a young Haresh Sharma seated in the audience, the actors on stage playing out a classic scene from an early play he wrote. The…