In a year that was largely more of the same—that is, like last year, ruled by musicals, the plays barely making comparable buzz—the biggest and most significant developments in local theater happened mostly offstage.
In a year bereft of final novels featuring boy wizards in Hogwarts, broken dawns featuring sparkling vampires, or cunning endings to Hunger Games combatants, 2011 brought with it a virtual invasion of new ideas and new voices, though there were some we had heard of before.
“Day And Night,” ongoing in Paseo Gallery (4/F, SM Megamall), appears to be a blow-up to beyond-life proportions of the Cornellian Box and its “shadows of forgotten dreams.”
Danny Dalena, Jaime de Guzman, Onib Olmedo, Ang Kiukok are some of the country’s well-known artists whose paintings provoke strong emotions from their viewers through their powerful representations of the human experience.
The country’s historic pipe organs are featured in the CD collection “Historical Organs of the Philippines,” performed and recorded by highly revered Swiss organist Guy Bovet.
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