February 7, 2015
I tried to write some words of praise, amidst this act of war, to hold our people’s heads up, proud of the fallen forty-four. I tried but then I tried
Valentine’s Day must be the heaviest-traffic day of the year in Metro Manila. The mall-size crowd is everywhere, including your supposedly most private restaurant.
“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.
Meet the third batch of lucky winners who each get a P5,000 shopping spree at SM Shoe City.
Fringe is a global arts festival first established in Australia in the 1940s, and it’s about to happen in the Philippines.
Fringe Manila will showcase plays and musicals coming from big production houses to university theaters. It runs Feb. 12 to March 1 in venues such as the Cultural Center of the Philippines, school buildings and community cafés. Here’s your quick theater guide.
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.
The country’s three biggest dailies all bore similar banner photos last Tuesday: policemen in tears during a recent gathering in the wake of the abominable massacre of their colleagues in Mamasapano, Maguindanao. Those were haunting images, to say the least, but they also inadvertently begged the timeworn question: Just how up close and personal can a picture get before it all becomes disruptive, disrespectful and distasteful?
There are probably only a few people in the world who have practiced humility despite their exceptional talent.
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