A few friends and I bravely watched “Desaparecidos,” a play based on the novel of the same title by Lualhati Bautista, produced for the stage by Jenny Jamora and adapted and directed by Guelan Varela-Luarca.
It’s a brilliantly mounted production that fuses fury, fear and, in its final moments, faint slivers of hope.
Pat Valera’s stage adaptation of Bautista’s novel returns Sept. 7-11.
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 directorial flair of Pat Valera harnessed the design supports so well that as it was, this stage musical could well stand being presented to a wider audience, as it deserves to be.
NO, THIS is not the Filipino version of “Fifty Shades of Grey,” although the three elderly women in Lualhati Bautista’s latest novel, “Sixty in the
Ricky Lee and Lualhati Bautista will be featured by Anvil Publishing during the Manila International Book Fair (MIBF), which will run Sept. 17-21 at the SMX Convention Center, Mall of Asia Complex, Pasay City.
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