A puppet figures in Tanghalang Pilipino’s (TP) premiere of Malou Jacob’s “Batang Mujahideen.” It is the character of Fatima, who witnesses her father’s death at the hands of a Christian
Malou Jacob, an alumna of the Philippine Educational Theater Association, is one of the country’s leading playwrights whose works grapple with sociopolitical issues such as “Juan Tamban,” “Macli-ing,” and
Unyon ng mga Manunulat sa Pilipinas (Umpil), or Writers Union of the Philippines, will hold its 44th National Writers’ Congress and 31st Gawad Pambansang Alagad ni Balagtas on April 28
After ‘Batang Mujahideen,’ she says she wants to shift to ‘testing the waters of poetry’ and finally reading her ‘accumulated books through the years’
Representing the two major streams of contemporary Filipino drama, they broke ground and changed the scene for good—and for the better
Malou Jacob’s ‘Macli-ing’ dramatizes the lives, beliefs and culture of the peoples of the Cordillera
(Part 1) Martial law was officially in effect in the Philippines from Sept. 21, 1972 to Jan. 17, 1981, when it was ostensibly lifted. In reality, then President Ferdinand E.
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