The frisky month of May: ‘Smaller’ productions of adventurous creativity
‘Kung Paano Maghiwalay’ was like a minuet of humor and satire and sentiment, intricately scripted and directed with panache by
George de Jesus III
‘Kung Paano Maghiwalay’ was like a minuet of humor and satire and sentiment, intricately scripted and directed with panache by
George de Jesus III
While moving and complicated, the play sometimes felt too much like a summary and a homily, and not enough like a story
“Being an actor in the theater was never in my dreams. I was too shy to be onstage. Stage fright to the max,” confesses Melvin Lee, who tackles the role of Jean Genet, in Dulaang UP’s (DUP’s) “Bilanggo ng Pag-ibig,” opening Feb. 11.
Sisters gone cuckoo and a pair of cancer-stricken kids were the unlikely stars of the two stage productions that played the Peta Theater Center’s Main Theater, during The Sandbox Collective’s multi-arts festival “The Imaginarium,” which ran Oct. 28-31.
The world’s greatest playwright. The brains of the Philippine Revolution. And an iconic gay writer-criminal from France.
The title alone of French playwright Jean Genet’s “The Maids” prompts a consideration of this particular staging’s venue location: in a building that straddles a sort of unofficial boundary—the red light district of Makati and a high-end, private residential area.
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