In 1996, Banaue Miclat (later Janssen), a freshman theater student at the University of the Philippines Diliman, appeared in Domingo...
7 new plays, from the valuable annual drama workshop honoring the legacy of Cebuano poet, playwright and educator Cornelio Faigao
It has been 42 years since my first Chinese New Year in Beijing. And 28 years since my last in the Chinese capital, as I, with my husband Mario and our two Chinese-born daughters, returned to the Philippines in 1986 right after the first Edsa People Power Revolution that brought down the Marcos dictatorship.
Old gives you the right to be cranky, bitchy, bossy, looney–after all, who’s gonna get back at a lame old dame!
Singing actress Banaue Miclat was born in China and spent her first seven years there, because her parents Mario Miclat (the writer) and Alma were leftist activists.
Forty, the age believed to be when real life begins, is what writer-painter Maningning Miclat would’ve been today. In September this year, it will be her 12th “angel year,” a tender euphemism that those who love and miss her use when they refer to her death.
