On being Tanghalang Ateneo’s new artistic director: ‘I won’t lie—being AD is a dream. But I imagined this [happening] 20, 30 years from now, hindi ganitong agad-agad.’
This multi-awarded playwright (nine wins in the Palanca Awards so far) likes “Archie” comics because, “like me and my friends, he’s not perfect. He loves his family and friends and will do everything he can to help them. He aims to please everyone which, of course, leads him to all sorts of trouble.
“Games People Play” is a Palanca-winning play by Glenn Sevilla Mas. It is tempting to think that the play is autobiographical in some form. But whether the playwright drew heavily from his own memories or not is irrelevant. What he has done is create a work that is gripping, relevant, immediate, and ultimately relatable to any one, regardless of their childhood memories.
TA’s Glenn Sevilla Mas and DUP’s Dexter Santos step down this year as artistic director of their respective organizations.
At 31, this Young Turk directs (Tanghalang Ateneo’s ‘Middle Finger’), designs sets (Red Turnip’s ‘33 Variations’), teaches stage management and serves as theater manager of Power Mac Spotlight at Circuit Makati
Displacement, differences, departures–these are the norms that echo repeatedly in his plays, whether the ones he writes, stages or picks for TA’s season offerings
A portion of Frances Makil-Ignacio’s dining table is covered in a psychedelic pool of loom bands, some near-spilling from what was supposed to be a cupcake stand.
As on the streets, the millennials are leading the charge for and remaking local theater
Tanghalang Ateneo, the longest-running theater company of the Loyola Schools of the Ateneo de Manila University, presents Glenn Sevilla Mas’ “Rite of Passage: Sa Pagtubu kang Tahud (An adaptation of a Kinaray-a short story by Maria Milagros Geremia Lachica),” beginning Nov. 27 under Ron Capinding’s direction.
Remember that story about the fair-skinned, virginal girl with the evil stepmother whose talking mirror has dreams of becoming a Miss Universe pageant judge? How about the one with the girl in supposedly eternal sleep, who can be awakened only by the kiss of a stranger? And the farm boy who scales a beanstalk and earns the ire of a giant apparently living in the stratosphere?
