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2006 Reviews

February

Cursive by Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan (Deanne Tan)
Educating Rita by Tour de Force Theatre (Deanne Tan)
Objects for Meditation by William Yang (Ng Yi-Sheng)
Confessions of 300 Unmarried Men by ACTION Theatre (Matthew Lyon)
Never the Sinner by The Stage Club (Kenneth Kwok)
Rosnah by The Necessary Stage (Ng Yi-Sheng)
Exploding Rice by Riverbed Theatre (Kenneth Kwok)
Photographs from S-21 / The Glass Box by Amrita Performing Arts (Hsieh Nizhen)
Photographs from S-21 / The Glass Box by Amrita Performing Arts (Ng Yi-Sheng)
The Harlem Hot Shots in Conjunction with Jitterbugs Swingapore (Stephanie Burridge)

March

Consultation by spell#7 (Ma Shaoling)
The Secret Souk by The Theatre Training and Research Programme (Ng Yi-Sheng)
Army Daze by Toy Factory Theatre Ensemble (Kenneth Kwok)
Sea Peach by Down Dog Productions (Ng Yi-Sheng)
The Secret of Laughter by I Theatre (Ng Yi-Sheng)
Projek Suitcase by Teater Ekamatra (Ng Yi-Sheng)

April

The Magic Fundoshi by W!ld Rice (Kenneth Kwok)
Lightology by Tokidoki-Jido (Ng Yi-Sheng)
Furthest North, Deepest South by The Finger Players (Ng Yi-Sheng)
Death and the Maiden by Escape Theatre Limited (Deanne Tan)
Duets 2 by spell#7 (Ng Yi-Sheng)

May

The Candlestickmaker by Indian Ink Theatre Company (Kenneth Kwok)
Aspects of Love by New Voice Company (Ng Yi-Sheng)
Queen Ping by Cake Theatre (Ng Yi-Sheng)
Mentah 3: Barisan Puteri Puteri by Teater Ekamatra (Kenneth Kwok)
The Art of War by Lars Otterstedt and Ramesh Meyyappan (Ng Yi-Sheng)
The Canterbury Tales by The Stage Club (Ng Yi-Sheng)
The Glass Menagerie by I Theatre (Kenneth Kwok)

June

Death and the Ploughman by the SITI Company (Ng Yi-Sheng)
Shanghai Beauty by Jin Xing Dance Theatre (Malcolm Tay)
Geisha by TheatreWorks (Ng Yi-Sheng)
Mobile by The Necessary Stage (Ng Yi-Sheng)
Phobia by Chamber Maid Opera (Ng Yi-Sheng)
Play on Earth by TheatreWorks, Station House Opera and Philarmonia Brasileira (Matthew Lyon)
The Dresser by The Singapore Repertory Theatre (Kenneth Kwok)

July

First Family by The Finger Players (Matthew Lyon)
Serve by The Ordinary Theatre (Amos Toh)
Cabaret by Toy Factory Theatre Ensemble (Kenneth Kwok)
Children's Letters to God by Asia Major (Ng Yi-Sheng)

August

Homesick by W!ld Rice (Amos Toh)
Homesick by W!ld Rice (Boon Chan)
Homesick by W!ld Rice
(Ng Yi-Sheng)
The Silence of the Kittens by W!ld Rice (Kenneth Kwok)
Bitter Chocolate by World-in-Theatre (Kenneth Kwok)
The Campaign to Confer the Public Service Star on JBJ by W!ld Rice (Boon Chan)
The Campaign to Confer the Public Service Star on JBJ by W!ld Rice (Ng Yi-Sheng)
The Beckett Project by The Theatre Training and Research Programme (Matthew Lyon)
Whose Voice Cries Out? by Singapore Dance Theatre (Malcolm Tay)

September

Dance Me to the End of Love by theatre du pif (Deanne Tan)
Forbidden City by The Singapore Repertory Company (Ng Yi-Sheng)
Fundamentally Happy by The Necessary Stage (Amos Toh)

October

Tick, Tick... BOOM! by Fiction Farm (Ng Yi-Sheng)
I'm Just a Piano Teacher by The Finger Players (Matthew Lyon)
Horseface by The Experimental Theatre Club (Ng Yi-Sheng)
Cheek by Cake Theatre (Matthew Lyon)

November

Little Shop of Horrors by Dream Academy and Dim Sum Dollies (Boon Chan)
Little Shop of Horrors by Dream Academy and Dim Sum Dollies (Amos Toh)
The Seven-Month Itch by The Necessary Stage (Amos Toh)
A Bedfull of Foreigners by British Theatre Playhouse (Deanne Tan)

December

Divine Soap by Cake Theatre (Amos Toh)
Jack and the Beansprout by W!ld Rice (Ng Yi-Sheng)
Mama Looking for her Cat by The Theatre Practice (Ng Yi-Sheng)
Pulau produced by Adrian Tan (Deanne Tan)

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