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Wednesday, Jul 23 2008 no comments

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Florante at Laura

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Ang Mapanglaw na Gubat
Leonilo Doloricon
Digital print, acrylic on canvas
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Florante at Laura

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Gapos ng Gunita
Marc Cosico
Acrylic on canvas
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Florante at Laura

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Hibik
Mark Arcamo
Oil and acrylic on canvas
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Florante at Laura

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Paalam
Jerome Malic
Pen and ink on canvas
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Florante at Laura

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Friday, Jul 18 2008 no comments

Hinabing Pakpak ng Ating mga Anak

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Hinabing Pakpak ng Ating mga Anak

“Enjoy the show—if you can,” the director himself warned the audience. Hinabing Pakpak ng Ating mga Anak is a painful storytelling of the lives of the most vulnerable yet most abused members of society. Through children’s stories penned by the late Rene Villanueva, Anton Juan Jr. conceptualizes, writes, and directs the very first play of Dulaang UP on its 33rd season and UP’s centennial year.

I love how this play transformed innocent tales into a woven blanket of tragedies. But I also appreciate all the careful details. Like the simple game of making a plastic bag float in mid-air by blowing under it, which became a ritual of children trying to make dreams take flight. Or the use of tiny flashlights, which danced like stars in the darkness that children fear. Or the minimalist stage design composed only of two things: a round platform on the left and a ramp on the right, which the children spring from and sink into.

Most of all, I love the exchange of questions between the dark (Earl Ignacio) and the light (Joel Saracho) writer personas. How heavy is metal? Is it as heavy as a baby floating dead in the river? Where can we find hope? Is it in continuing to do what we are doing? If we write to give hope and fight for change, is it enough? Is it ever enough?

Hinabing Pakpak ng Ating mga Anak opened on July 16 and will run until August 10. Watch the lovely trailer here.

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Saturday, Feb 23 2008 no comments

Orosman at Zafira

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Orosman at Zafira

Watch Orosman at Zafira. It’s beautiful, powerful, moving, inspiring. And it shows how a classic by the great Francisco Baltazar can remain so vibrant with today’s modern sensibilities. It’s perhaps the best play I’ve ever seen, considering every single play performed by the Dulaang UP is spectacular. More importantly, you will enjoy it. You will be struck by it.

I am not an expert in theater, but somehow the love I’ve had for it for almost all of my life burst with joy within me last night. Perhaps the only thing missing then was for us, the audience, to break free and join in the half-delirious, half-triumphant glory with which the komedya ended.

If the devil is in the details, this was perfect hell. Just look at the photographs—that was just the beginning. The battle scenes will always be my favorite—there’s just something about a symbolic war dance. That there were pretty boys who knew how to act, dance, and sing is only icing on the cake—though there’s a reason serenades have won girls over for decades.

Please, watch it. If you have to be proud of something—something Filipino, something UP, something artful, something poetic, something wonderful, something great—this is it.