Hi friends,
Frankie will be performing this month at the following locations:
16 Jan 2010, 8.30pm – Redhill Square (in between the food centre and wet market at Blks 79 and 85. Five minutes walk from Redhill MRT)
17 Jan 2010, 5.15pm – Sun Plaza Central Atrium (opposite Sembawang MRT)
28 Jan 2010, 12.30pm – SMU Arts Fest @ Singapore Management University (Underground Atrium near Koufu foodcourt)
These shows are free of charge and open to the public, so do drop by and say hi!
Frankie and Michael (our production manager) were recently featured in the news as the creators of the first-ever Youth Olympic Games mascots: Lyo and Merly. Although much of our production process was kept under wraps due to the nature of the project, the mascots were recently unveiled at a press conference at the Singapore Youth Olympic Games headquarters.
Amanda Zhang from youth-oriented WhyOhGee (pronounced Y-O-G) website interviewed Frankie and wrote a great article about the creation of the mascots. I’ve reproduced it here for your convenience, or you can also CLICK HERE to read the article on its actual website.
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By Amanda Zhang
23 November 2009
It’s official, the mascots of the first Youth Olympic Games are here to take over the world.
Lyo the lion cub, and Merly the merlion cub, with their big, innocent eyes, funky hairdos and oh-so-huggable bodies are definite crowd pleasers. Continue reading ‘Singapore 2010: First Youth Olympic Games Mascots – Lyo & Merly’
Over the weekend, Frankie performed his signature show, String Fling!, at the Standard Chartered Singapore Marathon 2009, where some 50,000 runners took part. Here are some pictures that were captured at the event:
Continue reading ‘Day Out at the Standard Chartered Singapore Marathon 2009′
Hi friends,
Mascots and Puppets Specialists and our friends at the Arts House have come up with an exciting children’s holiday programme from 20-22 December 2009 (1pm and 3.30pm daily). Do check out our e-flyer below and do bring your children, nephews, and nieces for our Puppets Play Time at the Arts House!
Frankie will be performing and teaching at this special year-end programme at the Arts House, so don’t miss this great opportunity to encounter the art of string puppetry!
For enquiries, please contact us at 68412260. See you there!
TICKETING
You can purchase your tickets at
Website: www.bytes.sg
Hotline: 63326919
In person: The Arts House Box Office (at 1 Old Parliament Lane Singapore 179429)
Click to Download Full-size E-Flyer (right-click and save)
We’re pleased to announce the launch of our new party puppet show website, Puppet Party Magic! Just point your browsers to puppetpartymagic.com to take a look at some of our special offerings for birthday parties, children’s shows, and cozy family get-togethers!
You can look forward to puppet shows that are specially catered for young folks and smaller venues. These programmes will feature an exciting combination of unique string puppets, puppets, magic and side-splitting humour that will make your party come alive!
For more bookings or more information, visit puppetpartymagic.com! If you have any thoughts, suggestions for improvements, or queries, just drop us an email at info@puppetpartymagic.com. Do us a favor and link us on your blog/website and let your friends know!
Hi friends, we are constructing some puppets for an upcoming holiday production entitled ‘Magical Garden’. It will be an acrobatic performance, but will feature some of our very special marionettes which have been custom-made for this production.
The performances are from 5 to 13 Dec 2009 at the new City Square Mall (next to Farrer Park MRT) at the Atrium on level one. Showtimes are 7pm on Tuesdays to Fridays, and 1pm, 3pm, and 7pm on weekends. Performances are open to public.
Drop by and take a look if you’re in the area!
Hi friends,
just a quick heads up that Frankie will be performing his signature marionette show, String Fling!, at the Asians Civilisations Museum this weekend at the Ngee Ann Auditorium (basement). The show times are:
21 Nov 09: 1.30pm – 2pm, and 4pm – 4.30pm
22 Nov 09: 12.30pm – 1pm, and 3.30pm – 4pm
Admission charges to ACM apply, but the show is free, so drop by ACM this weekend for a great puppet show and a tour around the museum!
Contact:
Asian Civilisations Museum
1 Empress Place Singapore 179555
Tel: 65-6332 2982, 65-6332 7798
Sesame Street just celebrated its 40th anniversary yesterday with an episode in the US featuring Michelle Obama talking about growing vegetables.
We’re so glad to see this show touch the lives of young children all over the world… through puppetry! What an inspiration!
Hi folks, tickets are still available for H Is for Hantu. It’s really a belly-full of laughs, Jonathan Lim-style. Also, look out for our giant puppets in the show (well, you won’t have to look that hard actually), audiences have really been responding well to them. Catch them while you still can from now till 23 Aug 09 at the Alliance Francaise theatre!
We’ve been getting positive reviews from the press. Here’s an review from TODAY newspaper just released this Monday:
Kampung spirit(s) lives on
by Mayo Martin
H IS For Hantu is about keeping the kampung spirit – or spirits – alive.
But there’s only so much that this inspired piece of supernatural comedy-cum-musical by Stages artistic director Jonathan Lim can do if an audience is reluctant to share that sense of community that it espouses.
It’s not just the bad acoustics and sound mix that Hantu – which I enjoyed, imperfections and all – has going against it. Instead, it’s potentially the spectre of scepticism from an air-conditioned generation far removed from the situation.
For the first time, I was actually contemplating if it would have been better to watch a matinee run. At least children are game enough to clap and sing along, which the musical at times requests from its audience.
Set in a neighbourhood that’s stranger than Avenue Q, the musical is set in Singapore’s other last kampung – the one in the forest behind Kampung Pisang Abadi that’s inhabited by some quirky hantus.
It’s set to make way for HDBs and eager beaver village boy Sazali wants to stop it, with help from his gang of ghosts – including an all-head-and-entrails penanggalang and a hilariously bitchy pontianak with cabaret singer aspirations.
Lim gleefully mines the folklore for its potential gags and puns, connects it to the contemporary, creates a kind of panto-meets-dikir barat hybrid. Such a heartfelt understanding of his imagined milieu made, for me, the deeper issue of the loss of home more credible and meaningful.
Bringing to life Lim’s vision were the performances particularly by Jo Tan as “Cik Pon(tianak)” and Ghazali Muzakir as Sazali, as well as puppet designer Frankie Malachi’s ingenuous creations which proved that even puppets can have great comedic timing.
It was fun watching ghosts come to life. It would’ve been even more fun if the audience didn’t act like zombies.
H Is For Hantu runs until Aug 23, 3pm and 8pm at AGF Theatre, Alliance Francaise de Singapour. Tickets at $30 to $40 from Gatecrash. Advisory: Supernatural Themes.
Hi friends, Frankie’s creations are travelling places! Take a look at one of Frankie’s custom creations, a mummy marionette, that was featured on Philippines’ JoJo A Show (kinda like their version of the David Letterman Show)! Manipulated by the wonderfully-skillful Ivan, Jojo the host couldn’t help but try his hand at the puppetry!
Meanwhile, our custom puppets for H Is For Hantu have been completed. Do remember to get your tickets at Gatecrash.com.sg to catch our giant puppets in action!
