Night Fest 2011! Rain! Tree! Pictures!
Due to some, erm, technical difficulties, the RAT was unable to upload any pictures of Weekend No. 1 of Voyage Night Festival earlier. Not that any of them were actually decent. So anyways, only managed to drop by on Saturday, where, unlike Friday (apparently), everything was delayed big-time because of the rain. Maybe organisers should consider this unpredictable element more, seeing as it’s almost a regular fixture at the festival. Things got delayed by an hour I think, so I didn’t finish the entire thing, having spent the afternoon emotionally drained after TheatreWorks’ reading of Tan Tarn How’s old piece The First Emperor’s Last Days, brought to life by the awesome quartet of Lim Kay Tong, T. Sasitharan, Lim Yu Beng and Karen Tan (with Lok Meng Chue in support). Awesome political allegory straight out of the late `90s as a lead-up to Fear Of Writing, Tan's first play in a decade, this week. The Night Fest this year seemed tamer compared to the previous one. Its European flavour – a touch of Goh Ching Lee’s programming -- in contrast to the Southeast Asian helter-skelter madness of Ong Keng Sen last year.