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洪艺冰带三学生与三旧作对峙

'久违的本地导演洪艺冰，这些年来跑遍世界各地教戏剧的同时，从来不忘思考身为剧场人的意义。下星期，她将带领本地跨文化戏剧学院的三名毕业生，以三部旧剧本为蓝本再创新剧，借此找出自我在剧场里的定位。

跨文化戏剧学院毕业生今年呈献的第二部作品，为多语言剧《问：边缘主角》（Q：Protagonists at the Edge）。'

- Lianhe Zaobao 

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Stitching up the fragments into playful theatre

'Theatre students Al-Matin Yatim, 26, from Singapore, and Chang Ting Wei, 27, from Taiwan, have already started doing their warm-ups on the rehearsal-room floor, trading an easy, familiar banter. Their classmate, Singaporean actor Yazid Jalil, 27, is running late - or is he?

As it turns out, he is perfectly on time in this carefully choreographed first scene of the theatre production Q: Protagonists At The Edge. It is a fascinating play within a play starring the three graduating students from the Intercultural Theatre Institute. They are directed by itinerant Singapore theatre practitioner Ang Gey Pin, 49.'

- The Straits Times

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Q: Protagonists at the Edge was previewed on Channel 8.

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Keep Singapore theatre fresh by embracing risk and failure

'By [the mid-2000s], the impact of training and mentorship programmes set up from the late 1990s could be felt. These included The Necessary Stage's Playwright's Cove, where [Natalie] Hennedige and Chong [Tze Chien] cut their teeth; and the Intercultural Theatre Institute, which gives actors a grounding in Asian and Western performance traditions. Peter Sau, who was in [Hennedige's] Nothing and is up for a Best Actor nomination this year for the Nine Years Theatre comedy Art, is a graduate of the programme.'

- The Straits Times

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Review: Invisibility

'Invisibility, directed by Koh Heng Leun, promises a dissection of society to reveal urban alienation and our despairing search for validation as individuals. The human condition, endless suffering and characterized by solitude, is the crux of Quah Sy Ren’s play written almost two decades ago. Initially in Mandarin, the script has been revised using various classic texts and writings from the cast themselves. The revitalized script, that includes modern references to technological conveniences like Whatsapp and current global affairs like the Ebola pandemic, proves how the human endeavor for connection is an ageless struggle.

As part of their final performance showcase, the graduating cohort from the Intercultural Theatre Institute followed the multicultural spirit of the institution.'

- The Review Room

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Time Out Singapore: 30 Things We Love About Singapore Theatre

'T. Sasitharan also contributed to the [local theatre] scene substantially – he was the theatre critic and then arts editor of the Life! section of The Straits Times until 1996, and later co-founded the Intercultural Theatre Institute with Kuo Pao Kun.'

- Time Out Singapore 

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Cloud Messenger

'Intercultural Theatre Institute (ITI) invites you to celebrate this National Day with an original, devised-in-Singapore play, Cloud Messenger. Helmed by guest director Alvin Tan and playwright Haresh Sharma from The Necessary Stage. Cloud Messenger is a multilingual, inter-disciplinary collaboration with some of Singapore’s leading artists such as Bani Haykal, Brian Gothong Tan, Jaclyn Tan, Steve Kwek and design collective Neon Tights.

Cloud Messenger is inspired by Megha Duta, a Sanskrit poem by Kalidasa and is devised with ITI’s 2014 graduating cohort, featuring students from countries as diverse as India, Italy, Bolivia, the Philippines and Singapore.'

- The Independent

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Experiencing poetry in action

'In Kalidasa's original lyric poem Meghaduta, a yaksa (nature spirit) pining for his wife persuades a passing cloud to help him send her a love message. The cloud agrees to do so, only after the yaksa describes in detail all the astonishing sights and wonders the cloud would see on its way to his wife's home.

This 1500-year-old story has, in the hands of Haresh Sharma and Alvin Tan, transformed into a contemporary play about the experiences of seven graduating students of the Intercultural Theatre Institute (ITI).'

- The Business Times

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Intercultural Theatre Institute: Une école de Théâtre fondée sur le mélange des cultures

'Some people have the good fortune to live several lives in one. [ITI Director] T. Sasitharan is one of those people. Journalist, philosophy teacher, actor and director, he was the Artistic Director of the Substation before founding the Intercultural Theatre Institute with his friend Kuo Pao Kun. Meet a key person in Singapore's arts scene, and discover the heart of a school which makes cultural hybridisation the basis of its theatre training.'

- Le Petit Journal

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$200 million fund to match cultural donations launched

'Ms Josephine Tan, Director of Development, Intercultural Theatre Institute (ITI), said: "Donors now have a new and substantive incentive to increase their support for the arts. The Cultural Matching Fund will help plug a critical gap as there are few funders for direct operational costs. For arts institutions like the ITI, this means we can accelerate plans to develop new programmes and establish an endowment. It will be interesting to see if the matching will also attract new philanthropists for arts and culture. That would be great!"'

- AsiaOne

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