In the acclaimed musical play “Mabining Mandirigma” by Nicanor G. Tiongson and Joed Balsamo, the role of the unbending hero Apolinario Mabini was played with distinction—in a controversial move by director Chris B. Millado—by three actresses: Delphine Buencamino, Liesl Batucan and understudy-turned-lead performer Hazel Maranan.
‘So help me God,’ she says of this once-in-a-lifetime chance to play her hero forebear
Tanghalang Pilipino on its 30th theatrical season for its mid-season offering presents the re-staging of the acclaimed and much-awarded “Mabining Mandirigma”, a steampunk musical, this December.
Entering Ambeth Ocampo’s apartment gives the visitor an idea of what it must be like inside the historian’s mind.
“THE MORAL stance of Apolinario Mabini was his best legacy,” said novelist F. Sionil José. “He was the most intellectual of our heroes, the most
MANTRA for the week: “Loving myself gives me the capacity to love others.”
Tanghalang Pilipino’s radical musical reimagining of Apolinario Mabini returns Feb. 19-March 13
The show’s revelatory punch is not confined to its radical casting of a female actor–the exceptional Delphine Buencamino–as Apolinario Mabini
Over lunch with Nic Tiongson and other stage directors—Chris Millado, Nanding Josef—and Teatro Pilipino personnel, they were talking about putting on an Apolinario Mabini play
Most of our national heroes were flawed human beings, as Nick Joaquin so startlingly revealed in his “A Question of Heroes” (Filipinas Foundation, 1977). But I submit that Apolinario Mabini—due to his intellect, uprightness and uncompromising stand—was the least flawed.
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