Peta and Rep turn 50: Why it’s also a golden moment for PH theater
Representing the two major streams of contemporary Filipino drama, they broke ground and changed the scene for good—and for the better
Representing the two major streams of contemporary Filipino drama, they broke ground and changed the scene for good—and for the better
This new musical-comedy is having a limited 4-show weekend run today and tomorrow at the Peta-Phinma Theater, then will go on tour
The experimental, all-student production “Manhid,” a dance musical and protest play, was first presented during the post-Edsa period in 1991, at the University of the Philippines-Diliman. Its chief influences included comic book and folk superheroes, and Salman Rushdie’s great novel “Midnight’s Children,” the Booker of all Booker Prizes, which was about the horde of children born at the instant India gained her independence from Britain in 1948.
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