Beverly Yuen, Artistic Director of the newly formed Grain Performance & Research Lab does not have enough of rice. In addition to redeveloping “Mandala” she first created in 2003 into “A Walk into the Mandala”, she named her new physical theatre collective “Grain”. In A Walk into the Mandala (8-9 December 2017), Beverly will be playing with 20kg of rice. The mandala signifies the different stages of life a quintessential urban being would experience. A 3-metre-wide rice Mandala progressively forms on stage as the protagonist journeys through the urban life. “Grain is a staple food of Asia, and yet it is found in many other cultures. Grain is an icon for hard work, growth and harvest. It also shows what Grain Performance & Research Lab (Grain PR Lab) is about— traditions in modernity, transculturality, and humanity,” said Beverly. Beverly was the founding member of Theatre OX (led by Ang Gey Pin from 1995 to 1999) and Artistic Director of In Source Theatre from 2001 to 2013. She first directed Mandala in 2003, which highlights the drawing of a 3-meter-wide rice mandala on stage that symbolises the psychological expression and transformation of mind. Some of the key challenges in the [...]
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