Operas, musicals and Nana Rosa
It was a period for reruns of successful Filipino musicals like “Eto Na! Musikal nAPO,” “Ang Huling El Bimbo” and the feel-good “Dirty Old Musical (DOM).”
May 27, 2019
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It was a period for reruns of successful Filipino musicals like “Eto Na! Musikal nAPO,” “Ang Huling El Bimbo” and the feel-good “Dirty Old Musical (DOM).”
UP Playwrights’ Theatre’s “Nana Rosa”—an essential but problematic play—was perhaps the quarter’s most visible, university-based show, but it wasn’t the only one.
Since they surfaced more than 25 years ago, the tragic-heroic figure of Rosa Henson and the larger cause of World War II “comfort women” have been touchstones of historical conscience, not only for the Japanese perpetrators, but also for Philippine society, where the trauma went unspoken for a long time.
When two of the country’s most prolific playwrights premiere new work within days of each other, one simply must pay attention, especially in this age of fake news and rampant historical revisionism.
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