Fresh off the critical success of the Pulitzer Prize winner “Rabbit Hole,” Red Turnip is capping off its second season with another heralded play from Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Donald Marguilles, “Time Stands Still.”
Something is happening in local theater. No, we don’t mean that all the previous years had been a long period of ennui and inactivity. Far from it.
Philippine Educational Theater Association’s (Peta) “FnL,” a modern reworking of Franciso Baltazar’s “Florante at Laura,” presents an unusual encounter of Balagtas’ language and contemporary Filipino slang like “bekimon” and “jologs.”
“Cock,” Red Turnip Theater’s production of the Olivier Award-winning play by Mike Bartlett, is back on stage on Oct. 3-5, six months after its successful first run. And director Rem Zamora couldn’t be happier that his first “baby” is making a reappearance.
After making a splash during its Manila premiere last February, Red Turnip Theater is bringing back the Olivier Award-winning play “Cock” for a limited one weekend re-run this October.
Dulaang UP’s ‘Measure for Measure’/‘Hakbang sa Hakbang,’ Guerrero Theater, until Sept. 7
Niccolo Manahan can be self-deprecating to a fault. “I hate the sound of my voice, and I hate looking at myself,” says the 35-year-old actor who recently played M in Red Turnip Theater’s “Cock.”
After attending the beautiful wedding of Sean Anthony and Teresa Herrera in Boracay last week, I can truly say that love is in the air.
A mere kilometer from the Magallanes MRT station, in a nondescript building called Whitespace, a play of diminutive scale rages with astonishing explosive power, one that ravages the robust human façade and inflicts damaging blow after blow upon the fragile emotional soul.
When Rem Zamora was tasked to direct Red Turnip Theater’s staging of the Olivier Award-winning play “Cock,” he was terrified.
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