On its 39th year, Dulaang UP’s lineup of plays has the work of contemporary theater living legends Tony Mabesa, Floy Quintos and Rody Vera.
Alumni gather for Dulaang UP anniversary fund-raiser
“Fake” by Floy Quintos (UP Playwrights’ Theater, directed by Tony Mabesa) is a dramatization of the Code of Kalantiao hoax,...
From the Filipino artistry to credibility, Apec remains a showcase.
Ano, Ateng, gusto mong umarte?” Normally, a question to be pondered carefully. But then again, it was Floy Quintos asking me to join the cast of his new play, “Collection,” and I am an avowed “Quintoshian” (albeit part-time) actor.
It wouldn’t come as a surprise if many of this year’s Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (Apec) delegates, after participating in daily mind-numbing marathon meetings, would hardly remember anything by 2016—except for the welcome parties they attended.
Floy Quintos’ tightening of the myriad threads that almost dragged down the original production of Full House Production’s “Ang Huling El Bimbo” is a case in point.
Dulaang UP’s latest offering, “Ang Huling Lagda ni Apolinario Mabini,” is a one-act reimagining of the titular national hero’s final days in exile in Guam and his conditional return to Manila, with book and lyrics by Floy Quintos and original music by Krina Cayabyab.
What lies in the minds of young children that gestates as they grow older, is sometimes never forgotten, and one day is realized, whether in the reality of life itself or in a beautiful fantasy translated in an art form?
A 17th-century molave relleve (bas relief), with the defaced images of two women greeting each other, intrigues the onlooker. The...
