Thumbs up for ‘Middle Finger’
Tanghalang Ateneo first staged Han Ong’s “Middle Finger” in 2006. This year’s version feels like a reboot that’s superior to the original.
August 30, 2014
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Tanghalang Ateneo first staged Han Ong’s “Middle Finger” in 2006. This year’s version feels like a reboot that’s superior to the original.
There is much to praise in Red Turnip Theater’s “Rabbit Hole”—one of the trifecta of “beautifully depressing,” emotionally searing shows playing in Manila this month, the other two being the exquisitely mounted productions of Han Ong’s “Middle Finger” (by Tanghalang Ateneo) and Jason Robert Brown’s “The Last Five Years” (by 9 Works Theatrical).
“Middle Finger.” We’re not sure about the imagery and related context that Filipino-American playwright Han Ong had in mind when he made it the title of his stunning, disturbing work, but after viewing Tanghalang Ateneo’s (TA) interpretation of the play last weekend, we get the drift.
Tanghalang Ateneo, the longest-running theater company of the Loyola Schools, Ateneo de Manila University, is celebrating its 36th season this school year 2014-2015. It has grown from a fledgling band of student players to one of the country’s leading school-based theater companies.
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