Retina Manoeuvre by k*hole karaoke - Wang Ping-Hsiang (Taiwan & Germany)

Standard: $38

20% off Concession Holders

Senior Citizen (Worldwide) aged 55 yrs and above: $30.40

Local/Overseas Students: $30.40

National Servicemen NSF (Full Time): $30.40

Persons with Disability (PWD card holders): $30.40

Ticket Pricing excludes Booking Fee. Booking Fee is as follows:

$6 booking fee per ticket for tickets above $50

$3 booking fee per ticket for tickets between $20.01 and $50

$1 booking fee per ticket for tickets priced up to $20

Sessions:

16 January 2026: 8pm to 8.55pm

17 January 2026: 8pm to 8.55pm

Wang, clutching a Hong Kong protest umbrella and visibly in tears, stabs at invisible enemies to the soaring chorus of Girl on Fire. The emotional impact was overwhelming—the audience rose to their feet in a standing ovation and brought the artist back for five curtain calls.

—Alexey Markin, DRAPO LAVE (translated from Russian)

Why is a Taiwanese military reservist so fascinated by Alicia Keys’ chart-topping hit "Girl on Fire"—a gay anthem he has sung countless times in karaoke bars? As he launches into the song’s climax, he is struck by a disorienting realisation: He can no longer place himself in the timeline of his own life when this transformative song was released on 4 September 2012.

A fanatical search through his digital archives unearths fragments of memory and confronts him with a past haunted by violence and destruction. In a live performance that assembles a visual monument entirely from memory, Wang wrestles with the fragility of memory—and the unsettling reality that everything he has preserved could go up in flames in an instant, consumed by forces beyond his control.

If autofobio (autobiographical phobia) were a genre, Retina Manoeuvre would be its textbook example. Here, theatre becomes a near-ritualistic medium for sweating out personal catharsis in front of a community—a warning to all.

—Wouter Hillaert, pzazz (translated from Dutch)

* Editors’ Picks – Best of 2024 (Artforum.com)

Accessibility features: 

• Open captions in English
• Speech to text interpretation for post-show dialogue upon request (see below)

There will be a dialogue with the artists after the 8pm performance on 16 January 2026, with speech to text interpretation available upon request. Please email your request to [email protected] by 5 December 2025.

Terms of Ticket Sales

• Once sold, tickets are strictly non-refundable or exchangeable unless the Singapore government mandates the closure of events in Singapore. All information given is correct at the time of publishing, but is subject to change without prior notice. The Promoter reserves all rights to amend any terms and conditions without prior notice, and, in the event of any dispute, the Promoter’s decision is final.

Conditions of Entry

• No admission for children aged 12 and below.
• All children must be accompanied by adults.
• Tickets are required for all patrons.

General

• Mobile phones must be switched off or switched to silent mode in the theatre.
• Patrons are required to follow all house rules and regulations set out by the venue. The House Rules are displayed within the venue premises.
• No food and drinks are allowed in the venue.
• There will be no intermission for this show.
• Open captions in English
• Speech to text interpretation for post-show dialogue on 16 January 2026 available upon request via email to [email protected] by 5 December 2025

Photography / Videography Recording Rules

• Strictly no photography, videography and audio recording allowed for this event.

Accessibility

• We welcome patrons who need accessible seating arrangements — including wheelchair users, those who require access to open captions, and those with assistance dogs.
• Due to varying production designs and seating configurations, please contact us at [email protected] before booking your ticket so we can share more information about seating and routes with you. You can also find more information about accessibility at the Fringe website.
• For queries or more information, please contact us at [email protected].

_{All information is correct at time of publishing but may be subject to change without prior notice.}

_{The Promoter reserves the right to amend the above without prior notice. In the event of any dispute, the Promoter's decision is final.}

K*HOLE KARAOKE

You can’t spell karaoke without the “K.” In k*hole karaoke, it stands for Kunst (art), the Kardashians (a lens on fame, capitalism, race, and spectacle), and the K-hole—a state of cultural dissociation. Founded by Taiwanese director Wang Ping-Hsiang and American writer Travis Jeppesen, k*hole karaoke is a performance company exploring how human behaviour is reshaped by material, digital, environmental, and commercial systems.

ARTISTIC CREATION/ PERFORMER – WANG PING-HSIANG

Wang Ping-Hsiang is a Berlin-based theatre director from Taiwan. His signature aesthetic transforms the everyday into the uncanny—transposing familiar landscapes into hyperreal, often surreal, digital environments. For Wang, theatre is not just a stage but a perceptual technology—an apparatus for decoding reality and proposing new modes of communication.

Wang constructs performances where narrative becomes a fully immersive, sensory architecture, inviting audiences into worlds where meaning is layered, unstable, and constantly remade.