'As part of the media partnership with Intercultural Theatre Institute (ITI), culture360 has interviewed its director and co-founder T. Sasitharan on the results of the the Asian Intercultural Conference organised last November in Singapore.'
- ASEF Culture 360
'Kok’s and ITI’s Our Town is a refreshing, multicultural take on a classic small town American play, effectively connecting the contemporary to the traditional. The cast took several risks and pushed boundaries in this final performance of ITI’s graduating cohort... Looking ahead, I’m excited to see what this talented batch of actors will have in store for us as they embark on the next stage of their careers.'
- Popspoken
'Visually rich and undeniably inventive in its staging, Kok Heng Leun and ITI’s Our Town is the perfect update to an old script for a modern Singaporean audience. Drawing out its inherent melancholy and concerns with the fragility of life and fleeting nature of time, Our Town is a timely reminder to cherish all we know and love now before it’s too late, and echoes a deep-seated nostalgia for a simpler time and friendlier people. As these students soon graduate, one hopes they’ll bring all they’ve learnt with them into the arts scene and continually strive to improve further; this is promising stuff we’ve seen, and we’re sure that this won’t be the last we hear of from any of them as we follow them into their next endeavours.'
- Bak Chor Mee Boy
'ITI’s graduating cohort of 2017 presents Our Town, the Pulitzer Prize-winning play by American playwright Thornton Wilder. This rendition is set to be an intercultural interpretation of Wilder's play. Find out how Our Town is relevant to Singapore's multicultural, multilingual society and how a community can respond to changes in today’s context.
We speak to the director Kok Heng Leun and choreographer Koh Wan Ching to find out how the team attempts to localise the play's context, 80 years after Our Town was first performed.'
- Arts Republic
'As part of the media partnership with Intercultural Theatre Institute (ITI), we have interviewed Frances Barbe, Director, Choreographer and Performer and one of the speakers at the upcoming Asian Intercultural Conference in Singapore (27-30 November 2017). Frances has shared her extensive experience in working in intercultural theatre and in particular with different training techniques, including butoh dance.'
- ASEF Culture 360
'Presented in collaboration with the Esplanade, the Intercultural Theatre Institute’s graduating cohort will be performing their newest show at the Esplanade Theatre Studio this November, following their previous production of Leakages. Directed by Drama Box Artistic Director and Arts NMP Kok Heng Leun, ITI presents American playwright Thornton Wilder’s Pulitzer Prize winning play – Our Town.
- Bak Chor Mee Boy
'On 21 August, the Intercultural Theatre Institute officially launched the Möbius Fund, a zero-interest financial assistance fund for its students. On repayment, the funds are channelled back to the pool, to be awarded to subsequent cohorts. Kick-started by lead donors, and matched, dollar-for-dollar, by the National Arts Council under the Cultural Matching Fund, the S$500,000 revolving loan fund is raising a second tranche of S$300,000. Public donations can be made via fundraising platforms Giving.sg, Give.Asia, or Ammado.
Closing date for donations is 31 March 2018. For more details, visit www.iti.edu.sg/support/how-to-support.'
- A-List
'As a semi-surrealist play, Leakage(s) and Anticoagulants does a great job at balancing both the realist, narrative scenes and the psychological explorations of Raskolnikov’s mind. A chorus of eight (Desmond Soh, Henrik Cheng, Regina Foo, Shirley Tan, Sonia Kwek, Teo Dawn, Uma Katju, Wong Yunjie) represents the inner workings of Raskolnikov’s psyche, sharing their doubts, manipulating and urging her on throughout the play. At times at odds with one another, the chorus reflects Raskolnikov’s inner conflict, as she is torn between confessing her crime and keeping silent while an innocent Mikolai (Saran Jith) is convicted in her place.
What struck me the most was the sheer physicality of the performance – director Alberto Ruiz Lopez has crafted riveting movement sequences that bring out the potential of his students, particularly the eight-actor chorus.'
- Popspoken
Review of Leakage(s) and Anticoagulants by Lianhe Zaobao.
- Lianhe Zaobao
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