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Succinctly directed, though a bit too expository
If you want an evening of genuine surprise at the theater, the kind that makes you go, “I never thought they had it in them,” then the Ateneo is the place to be these days, where Blue Repertory’s “In the Heights” and Tanghalang Ateneo’s adaptation of “Waiting for Godot” prove nightly that youth and inexperience are never hindrances to putting up a show whose quality matches its ambition.
“I was delighted. Shocked. Couldn’t move. I was shaking,” says Miguel Antonio Alfredo “Guelan” Luarca, recalling his winning First Place in this year’s Palanca Memorial Award for Literature’s Dulang May Isang Yugto category.
Starkly staged, these stories brim with depth, eloquence and conviction
New original plays, bigger audiences, a tighter community, more regional shows in the spotlight
One offers rambunctious moments, the other terrific music-making
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.’
Lhorvie Nuevo plays a woman whose lover tries to raise her from the dead in Tanghalang Pilipino's ‘Eurydice’
Tanghalang Ateneo stages “Ang Bakkhai (The Bacchae)” by Euripides on September 12-14, and 18–21 at the Black Box, Fine Arts Annex, Ateneo de Manila University. The Filipino adaptation is by Guelan Luarca.
Dulaang Unibersidad ng Pilipinas’ opening production for its new season is “Ang Katatawanan ng Kalituhan,” Guelan Varela-Luarca’s Filipino translation of...
