Chestnuts Press Release

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Chest­nuts is back and, mamma mia, what a show we have in store!

Intro­duc­ing the new killer pair­ing of Jonathan Lim (Chest­nuts cre­ator and vet­eran of 8 years) and Sin­ga­pore Boy Hos­san Leong, fresh from his own one-man show!

This 8th install­ment of Singapore’s only LIVE par­ody show promises more hard-hitting spoofs and mer­ci­less stabs at all things pop­u­lar and artsy! Get ready for non-stop com­edy sketches and par­ody songs as this mad­cap duo poke fun at our favorite movies, plays, TV shows and cur­rent events! The action is fast-paced, the cos­tume changes count­less and the humor unstoppable!

This year, Chest­nuts returns to its 1996 birth­place Jubilee Hall with all-new wacky spoofs of 2004’s hottest films like Kill Bill 2, Peter Pan, Troy, 2046, The Grudge, House of Fly­ing Dag­gers, Dawn of the Dead, Sky Cap­tain and the World of Tomor­row, Alien Vs Preda­tor, Exor­cist: The Beginning,The Step­ford Wives and Cat­woman.

PLUS par­o­dies of hit shows like Mamma Mia!, Sin­ga­pore Idol, Friends, Extreme Makeover, Top or Bot­tom, Pri­vate Parts, Aladdin, The Vagina Mono­logues and Wills & Mergers

a dig at those ridicu­lous cin­ema pre-show ads…

The­atre­Works Does the Olympics, a par­ody of the Life! The­atre Awards and a trib­ute to the (still) pink the­atre scene…featuring a dif­fer­ent spe­cial guest each night join­ing us for a hilar­i­ous live chat-show about top­i­cal issues such as stu­dio merg­ers, black­outs and celebrity preg­nan­cies (and the con­spir­acy that links them all…)!

More details on Chest­nuts past and present here.

Crit­ics sayÂ…

“…should be seized on with delightÂ… the per­form­ers are so adept at send­ing up every­thing that any­thing goes. Their reper­toire is vast, and the action fast as the sketches are trot­ted out at whirl­wind paceÂ… the wit and style matches the very best of satire.”

– Ron Banks, The West Aus­tralian, 1998

“Lim and Yeo have so much fun and their work is so pol­ished that you canÂ’t help enjoy­ing itÂ… Lim has an extra­or­di­nar­ily beau­ti­ful face capa­ble of reg­is­ter­ing the sub­tlest of emo­tions, and a chimeri­cal abil­ity to change char­ac­ter (and he also looks hilar­i­ously gen­uine in a dress).”

– Grant Cot­trell, Xpress (Perth), 1998

“Clever as the writ­ing is, the real charm of Chest­nuts lies in the fre­netic energy dis­played by its per­form­ersÂ… a remark­able chem­istry between them…”

– Jeremy Samuel, The Arts Mag­a­zine, Mar-Apr 2002

“The qual­ity of the show was just over­whelm­ing. Con­ceived to crank out the most num­ber of laughs from a (prefer­ably) local Sin­ga­porean audi­ence in one and a half-hours, it cer­tainly did its jobÂ… Mad men they clearly wereÂ… the show shines ever so brightly. I can hon­estly say that I haven’t had this funny a night out in a long timeÂ… Regret­fully, I can only ask myself why I didn’t find out about it ear­lier. Oh well…”

– Adi Soon, The Fly­ing Inkpot, 2000

“The show is very funny and I enjoyed it very much. I’m def­i­nitely look­ing for­ward to next year’s show.”

– Glen Goei on 2003’s “Chest­nuts Unloaded: The Curse of the Black Pearl Bub­ble Tea”

“Chest­nuts is def­i­nitely roast­ing on an open fire — and it has been get­ting hot­ter with each year.“

– Zhou Junli, The New Paper, Dec 2003

Shows: 24th Novem­ber — 27th Novem­ber, 8pm (and 3pm Saturday).