January 2014

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LIVE PREVIEW
ARTS&LEISURE
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Live music, theatre and dance to start the New Year
with a bang STAGE
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Live music
Eighteen bands hit the stage at
the fourth Laneway Festival,
with Scottish alternative
electronic band Chvrches, US
group Haim, English singer-
songwriter James Blake, and
Singapore experimental rock
band The Observatory among
those in the outstanding line-
up. Organisers say it’s shaping
up to be the biggest event
yet. While 4,000 attended the inaugural festival in 2011, the same number
of tickets were sold in the first ten days of sales for the 2014 event. The
Laneway Festival is on 25 January at The Meadow, Gardens By The
Bay. Tickets from Sistic. The Ant and The
Grasshopper
A bright, breezy musical based on
Aesop’s famous fable, with colourful
characters, puppets and catchy
songs. Perfect for ages three to
12. See it from 26 February to 15
March at the historic Jubilee Hall
at Raffles Hotel, 1 Beach Road.
Tickets from Sistic
My Fair Lady
Head back to Edwardian London
and meet Eliza Doolittle, a Cockney
flower girl, and the snobbish Professor
Henry Higgins, a phoneticist who
wagers that he can turn Eliza into a
“proper lady” in three months. One
for the whole family. From 11 to 23
February at Marina Bay Sands
Theatres – Sands Theatre. Tuesday
to Sunday at 8pm; Saturday and
Sunday at 2pm. Tickets from www.
Theatre for Kids
Nine stellar plays are in the line-up of
this year’s KidsFest; a smorgasbord of
fabulous kids’ theatre that is bound to
send imaginations into overdrive. We
can’t decide which one to see, so we
might go to three or four. They include
perennial favourite The Gruffalo (15 –
21 January), What the Ladybird Heard
(21 January – 1 February), two Horrible
Histories, including Awful Egyptians (31
January – 8 February), and We’re Going on a Bear Hunt (23 – 26 January).
At Drama Centre Theatre, 100 Victoria Street and DBS Arts Centre,
Merbau Road. Tickets from Sistic
For the
Diary
Fringe Festival Singapore
Celebrating a decade of performance art, this programme is jam-packed with
15 works from six countries. Highlights include Henrik Ibsen’s iconic play An
Enemy of the People, which depicts one man’s struggle to hold his beliefs
against the majority; Three Fingers
Below the Knee, which examines how
censorship tried to control art during
40 years of dictatorship in Portugal;
and the specially commissioned
The Mountain, exploring themes of
climate change, society and identity.
Catch these and lots more from 8 to
19 January at venues across town.
Tickets are $19 each from Sistic.
Check out the full programme at