'The masks made me see very little. I had to dance, sing and act without seeing much—to completely master the performance space, even with eyes closed'
The Peta Theater Center presents the Hiroshi Koike Bridge Project’s “Mahabharata B-War” on Dec. 2-3, 2015, 8 p.m. This Pan-Asian...
The world’s greatest playwright. The brains of the Philippine Revolution. And an iconic gay writer-criminal from France.
Dulaang UP’s “Ang Nawalang Kapatid” (with remaining performances Saturday and Sunday at Guerrero Theater, UP Diliman) is billed in press announcements as a musical adaptation of the Indian epic “Mahabharata,” the theatrical transposition courtesy of Floy Quintos and the music by Ceejay Javier.
Like the “Ramayana” (think “Rama Hari”), that other Indian epic “The Mahabharata” is one of the glories of world literature. It is said that “what is not found in the Mahabharata is not to be found anywhere else in the world.”