Succinctly directed, though a bit too expository
It’s a brilliantly mounted production that fuses fury, fear and, in its final moments, faint slivers of hope.
The restaging of “Desaparesidos,” adapted from Lualhati Bautista’s novel, runs Aug. 17-Sept. 2, at The Doreen Black Box, Areté, Ateneo de Manila University.
The Philippine High School for the Arts’ (PHSA) production of “Nagwawalang Gubat”—Guelan Luarca’s translation of Caryl Churchill’s “Mad Forest,”...
Lhorvie Nuevo plays a woman whose lover tries to raise her from the dead in Tanghalang Pilipino's ‘Eurydice’
Starkly staged, these stories brim with depth, eloquence and conviction
“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.
Its three best entries each features at least one bright new talent at the helm
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.
Dulaang Unibersidad ng Pilipinas’ opening production for its new season is “Ang Katatawanan ng Kalituhan,” Guelan Varela-Luarca’s Filipino translation of...
