{"id":114902,"date":"2022-12-05T09:30:00","date_gmt":"2022-12-05T01:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glutenfreepleasure.com\/__proxy_domain\/www.wildrice.com.sg\/?p=114902"},"modified":"2022-12-04T15:15:38","modified_gmt":"2022-12-04T07:15:38","slug":"wild-rice-announces-three-new-shows-to-kick-off-2023-with-a-bang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glutenfreepleasure.com\/__proxy_domain\/www.wildrice.com.sg\/wild-rice-announces-three-new-shows-to-kick-off-2023-with-a-bang\/","title":{"rendered":"Wild Rice Announces Three New Shows to Kick Off 2023 With a Bang"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A World Classic Reimagined<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

A thought-provoking twist on the murder mystery genre, J.B. Priestley\u2019s AN INSPECTOR CALLS<\/a><\/em><\/strong> takes audiences into the heart of a seemingly happy, middle-class family whose lives are upended when an Inspector arrives with news of the death of a young woman.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Written in 1945, Priestley\u2019s classic psychological thriller is one of his best-known works, and has been studied by generations of students in schools all over the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Directed with biting insight by Glen Goei, this production was originally slated to open Wild Rice\u2019s 2020 season. It proved to be one of the theatre company\u2019s first casualties of the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cReturning to this endlessly fascinating play after living through the past three years has been illuminating, to say the least,\u201d says Goei, who is also Wild Rice\u2019s Co-Artistic Director. \u201cThe pandemic has only sharpened the inequities between the haves and the have-nots, between those who have the power and privilege in society and those who don\u2019t. When he first wrote this play close to 80 years ago, J.B. Priestley wanted to challenge audiences to really think about what we owe one another \u2013 and I think that\u2019s a more pressing concern than ever right now. This play hasn\u2019t aged a day!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A New Opera Takes Flight<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

In May, Singapore audiences can look forward to the world\u2019s first English-language opera adaptation of THE BUTTERFLY LOVERS<\/a><\/em><\/strong>, which won critical acclaim at its world premiere in Melbourne, Australia earlier this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Years in the making, this spectacular new production marks the first international collaboration between Wild Rice and Victorian Opera. Ivan Heng, Wild Rice\u2019s Founding Artistic Director, leads a team of Singapore and Australia\u2019s finest arts practitioners to put a fresh, original spin on the beloved Chinese folktale. The Butterfly Lovers <\/em>features a new score by Richard Mills and a libretto by Joel Tan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhen Richard first invited me to direct any opera of my choosing with Victorian Opera, way back in 2015, I decided against staging an existing opera in the Western canon,\u201d says Heng. \u201cI thought it would be more meaningful for us to create something new together, to collaborate on a truly intercultural production that would speak to both our audiences in Singapore and in Melbourne. This Asian premiere is a dream come true.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIvan Heng is, in my opinion, one of the great theatre-makers of Asia,\u201d says Mills, who is one of Australia\u2019s most distinguished composers, as well as the Artistic Director of Victorian Opera. \u201cCollaborating with him on this new opera has been an invigorating, rewarding experience \u2013 we have challenged and inspired one another to make art in cross-cultural, innovative ways, and I am excited for Singapore audiences to see what we have created together.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Triumphant Return of a Wild Rice Masterpiece<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Last, but not least, Wild Rice will bring its award-winning blockbuster production of HOTEL<\/a><\/em><\/strong> home to The Ngee Ann Kongsi Theatre. Unfolding over close to five hours and performed in nine languages, HOTEL<\/em> follows the guests, staff and ghosts of an iconic hotel in Singapore through a century of social and political change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Co-directed by Heng and Goei, from a script by Alfian Sa\u2019at and Marcia Vanderstraaten, HOTEL<\/em> made its world premiere at the 2015 Singapore International Festival of Arts, where it was proclaimed an \u201cinstant classic\u201d by The Straits Times. It won the Straits Times Life Theatre Awards for Production of the Year, Best Direction, Best Original Script and Best Ensemble.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2017, HOTEL<\/em> wowed audiences in Adelaide as the headline production of the OzAsia Festival.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe have always dreamt of staging HOTEL<\/em> in our very own theatre,\u201d says Heng. \u201cIt is, after all, the quintessential Wild Rice show: a fully homegrown play that celebrates who we are as Singaporeans, telling our stories in ways that honour our history and our heritage.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIn the intimacy of The Ngee Ann Kongsi Theatre, audiences will literally be in<\/em> the hotel room, experiencing the grand sweep of history through this landmark theatrical event.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tickets to all three shows go on sale to Wild Rice Angels from 5 December, and to the general public from 12 noon on 19 December. Audiences will enjoy a 15% Early Bird discount on all Category 1 & 2 tickets purchased from 19 December 2022 to 18 January 2023.<\/mark><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Access performances to accommodate patrons with different needs are available for An Inspector Calls<\/em> and HOTEL<\/em>. (Please see here<\/a><\/strong> for more information.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

05 December 2022 \u2013 Wild Rice today announced the first three shows of its 2023 season: An Inspector Calls, The Butterfly Lovers and HOTEL.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":114908,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"Three New Shows To Kick Off 2023 With A BANG - WILD RICE Singapore","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"default","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,8],"tags":[129,196,93,136,45,95,44,528,101,382,526,524,527],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glutenfreepleasure.com\/__proxy_domain\/www.wildrice.com.sg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114902"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glutenfreepleasure.com\/__proxy_domain\/www.wildrice.com.sg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glutenfreepleasure.com\/__proxy_domain\/www.wildrice.com.sg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glutenfreepleasure.com\/__proxy_domain\/www.wildrice.com.sg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glutenfreepleasure.com\/__proxy_domain\/www.wildrice.com.sg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/glutenfreepleasure.com\/__proxy_domain\/www.wildrice.com.sg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114902\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glutenfreepleasure.com\/__proxy_domain\/www.wildrice.com.sg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glutenfreepleasure.com\/__proxy_domain\/www.wildrice.com.sg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glutenfreepleasure.com\/__proxy_domain\/www.wildrice.com.sg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glutenfreepleasure.com\/__proxy_domain\/www.wildrice.com.sg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}