Highlights of SIFA 2019

Stunningly told by one of the UK’s most respected directors, Simon McBurney, with actors from the famed Schaubühne Berlin, Beware of Pity is an emotionally gripping play about the treacherous.

From visionary director Tadashi Suzuki comes a masterful, cross-cultural adaptation of Greek tragedy The Bacchae, featuring an impressive cast of Indonesian, Japanese and Chinese actors.

In this stunning performance-installation, Japanese artist Shiro Takatani’s meditation on silence unfolds in an exquisite multimedia staging, along with music by world-renowned composer Ryuichi Sakamoto.

Berlin choreographer Sasha Waltz’s provocative signature work, Körper, investigates the structure of the body against the mortality of human existence.

From critically acclaimed theatre company Checkpoint Theatre comes Displaced Persons’ Welcome Dinner, a powerful new play about humanitarian workers caught in the crosshairs of a crisis.

In The Mysterious Lai Teck, acclaimed Singaporean artist Ho Tzu Nyen leads you into the labyrinthine underworld of spies and a depiction of one of Southeast Asia’s most shadowy historical figures.