Not one, not two, but All My Sons: a Raffles Players Production
By Nerissa Loe (17A13A), Yang Si Qi (17A01C) and Nadiya Nesseer (17S03B) Additional reporting by Catherine Zou (17A01B) Photos by Maximilian Lim and Tuen Young Ji (Warning: spoilers ahead!) The...
View ArticleA Piece To Take Home: Memento by Chamber Ensemble
by Jeanne Tan (17A01B) and Serafina Siow (17A13A) Pictures by Angela Sun (17S06M), Raffles Photographic Society Memento. Definition: An object kept as a reminder of a person or event. This was also the...
View ArticleA Resounding Success: 翠谷回响 2016
By Ernest Lee (17A01A), Catherine Zou (17A01B) Chinese and culture are perhaps oft-forgotten aspects of our JC lives. After all, many have sworn off the subject indefinitely after the horrors of...
View ArticleSangamam – A night of fun, enjoyment and laughter
By Kaushik Rangaraj (17S06P) Photo Credits: Guan Xin (17S06B) Additional Reporting by Narayanan Avinash (17S06S) On 28th May 2016, PAC played host to ICS’s annual production Sangamam. It was the 11th...
View ArticleThe Rock Concert Gotham Deserves: Rockout 2016
By Joan Ang (17A01B), Ernest Lee (17A01A) and Lee Yun Ning (17A01E),Additional Reporting by Jeanne Tan (17A01B), Photos by Nicole Lai (17S06D), Esther Chin (17S06D) and Victoria Ang (17S07D) ANARCHY...
View ArticleA Taste of Darkness – Dine In The Dark 2016
By Jeanne Tan (17A01B), Nerissa Loe (17A13A) and Serafina Siow (17A13A) Pictures by Raffles Interact Club A mere 3 hours of near darkness had us fumbling around despite our caution. But for the...
View ArticleThingamajig 2016: Concert with a Cause
By Serafina Siow (17A13A) and Abdul Qayyum (17A01B), Additional reporting by Jeanne Tan (17A01B) It’s the time of the year when most concerts by Performing Arts CCAs have concluded, and...
View ArticleStar Trek: Beyond – Review
By Jeanne Tan (17A01B), pictures from wegotthiscovered.com and space.com This article may contain spoilers! If you have not watched the film, do be aware of this. Here’s my opinion on this movie: you...
View ArticleRewind IV: Final Cuts – Film Showcase 2016
By Gan Chin Lin (17A01B) , Jeanne Tan (17A01B) , Marilyn Kang (17A01B), Abdul Qayyum (17A01B) Last Friday night saw the PAC festooned with clapper board paraphernalia, pamphlets and balloons. Film...
View ArticleGhostbusters 2016: Three Decades – Review
By Ernest Lee (17A01A) and Joan Ang (17A01B), Image sources: comicvine.com, ghostbusters.wikia.com Two Press members walk into a movie theatre, having been told by Press EXCO that they should review...
View ArticleAchtung! – 20th German Film Festival 2016
By Bay Jia Wei (17S06R) As a student taking German as a foreign language, my friends have taunted me with an endless series of wurst jokes for the past five years. Occasionally, learning the language...
View ArticleWhere to Find: A Raffles Players J1 Production
By Yang Siqi (17A01C) and Nerissa Loe (17A13A). Photos by: Raffles Photographers. 3 4 5 11. Colourful chalked words all around the school’s hotspots revealed the dates of the Players’ latest...
View Article#sglitftw: Support Your Local Authors
By Joan Ang (17A01B) and Ernest Lee (17A01A) It is a common practice in any vaguely-literature-related classroom to, during introductions, go around the room and say a few things: firstly, your name,...
View ArticleMovie Review: Moana (2016)
By Abdul Qayyum (17A01B) Moana, an animated spectacle that follows the story of a young girl in forgoing tradition and family to find something bigger than herself- to restore and correct the world...
View ArticleRaffles Reviews – Comic Books / Graphic Novels
By Noor Adilah (17S06B) This article is part of a series of genre and format reviews done in collaboration with Raffles Reviews, an Instagram page by Raffles Debate. Click here for more beautiful...
View ArticleIn Defence of Trashlit
By Catherine Zou (17A01B) At the start of the year, I resolved, somewhat fruitlessly, to “expand my understanding and knowledge of the world”. With this vague banner of self-improvement came the...
View ArticlePlease Mind The Platform Gap: H2 Art – Finding the Extraordinary in the Ordinary
by Noor Adilah (17S06B) You’ve heard the stories. You’ve seen the gorgeous paintings that line the corridors. You’ve probably even gawked at the beautiful Art Studio where mysterious art students spend...
View ArticleAin’t No Party Like Player’s House Party: Players Alumni Production
By Carman Chew (17A01D) and Nadiya Nesseer (17S03B) “Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.” — James Baldwin In this year’s instalment of their annual production, the alumni...
View ArticleFrom the Stars to the Sunrise: No Day But Today
By Joan Ang (17A01B) and Serafina Siow (17A13A) Photos by Raffles Photographic Society The Broadway Babies are nothing short of a miracle — having started out as a small Lit Night act of approximately...
View ArticlePower Trip – From Blues To Bossas
by Elizabeth Leong (18S06G), Liu Enqi (18S03C) For many, jazz brings to mind a distant era and faraway setting – a lively American nightclub in the 1940s, perhaps. Some may consider it elusive,...
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