Singapore is prepared to embrace the night with the return of this year’s Singapore Night Festival. In years past, the innovative event has been dominated by feats of talented acrobatic acts and mesmerizing light shows. This year’s festival will still included these popular attractions, but it will go another step forward to offer participants additional quality entertainment.
What’s new at this year’s Singapore Night Festival is the inclusion of theater acts and performances that will be on the move throughout the city. There are a number of different zones in which people can enjoy the displays that will be a part of the event, and these performances will roam throughout them, offering all those interested a chance to continue to watch the shows they put on. Theater troupes from across the world will be taking part in this exciting festival, putting on their unique acts for all who care to see them.
The theme for this year’s festival can be described as a mashup of technology and history, a tale of innovations to come and the danger inherent of tinkering with life and the world. Science and all of its considerations will influence the acts and displays, and it will be a celebration of the hard work and genius that goes into making our world modern.
The roaming theater acts will be adhering to this theme in several exciting ways. One troupe from the United Kingdom is putting on a show that has been described as a love story — only set in a post-apocalyptic world. Two people travel together, their clothes shabby and worn, wearing dark goggles and scarves concealing their faces. This perhaps reflects the idea that something terrible has happened to the environment or atmosphere. Accompanying them is a large wheel in which all of their worldly possessions — and the things they need to survive — are stored. The show combines engineering and acrobatics in addition to the love story that lies at the heart of it.
Another pair of performers hailing from France will roam the streets of the Singapore Night Festival in ordinary suits, looking perfectly normal except for one crucial detail: they’ll be wearing fishbowls on their heads. This act will address themes of communication — or the lack thereof — and common courtesy in today’s world of social media and text messages.
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To read more about the acts expected to participate in this year’s Singapore Night Festival, go to http://news.asiaone.com/news/lifestyle/roving-art-performances-hit-streets-singapore-night-festival-2016.