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“Ang Huling Lagda ni Apolinario Mabini” is Krina Cayabyab’s first full-length musical, and she says the challenges are immense but surmountable.
One offers rambunctious moments, the other terrific music-making
“Adarna,” the recent Dulaang UP production of the well-known Filipino folk tale that was adapted for the stage by playwright Vlad Gonzales and directed by José Estrella, turned out to be more of a coming-of-age story of its young princely hero Don Juan (Fitz Bitaña). Perhaps it would have been more accurate to retitle it to something akin to the seemingly impossible labors of Hercules, or the wondrous journey of Odysseus.
What costume designer Gino Gonzales couldn’t do due to budget constraints, he more than made up for in terms of silhouettes and textures to produce neutral-colored Elizabethan-inspired costumes made of katsa (muslin), raffia, jute and sinamay for Dulaang UP’s staging of William Shakespeare’s “Measure for Measure.”
While moving and complicated, the play sometimes felt too much like a summary and a homily, and not enough like a story
Dulaang UP’s second offering for its 40th Theatre Season is William Shakespeare’s “King Lear” and its new Filipino translation, “Haring...
Dulaang UP’s adaptation of Goethe’s epic is as timely a theatrical staging as it gets
Contempt. Liberation. Communion. For its 37th season, Dulaang UP features return engagements of successful productions from the previous season, a classic play by a master dramatist and an exciting new offering from a highly-esteemed Filipino playwright.
Dulaang UP’s ‘Measure for Measure’/‘Hakbang sa Hakbang,’ Guerrero Theater, until Sept. 7
Coming off a hugely successful and critically acclaimed extended run, Dulaang UP’s “Ang Nawalang Kapatid” will stage benefit shows on July 4-6, and 11-13 (Friday to Sunday only) in celebration of UP Department of Speech Communication and Theater Arts’ 55th anniversary.
