One trend in the Metro Manila theater circuit lately is the no-intermission 60-to-90-minute plays. Red Turnip Theater’s “Constellations” and...
Clear, coherent and sound storytelling above all else—that’s our tacit takeaway from this year’s Virgin Labfest, the annual festival...
It was on a rainy Wednesday afternoon, June 29, when 23-year-old playwright Soc delos Reyes lost his virginity, so to speak, when his first-ever play to be staged debuted at the Virgin Labfest 12 (VLF 12)—ongoing at the 250-seater Tanghalang Huseng Batute (Experimental Theater) of the Cultural Center of the Philippines until July 17.
A roundtable meeting is “a venue for intellectual discussion among the academe, students, playwrights, directors, media and anyone interested in theater,” said Jeffrey Hernandez, council master of the University of the Philippines Theater Council.
Playwrights and directors are the hubs of a robust theater practice. As the cores of theater, they ensure production, because creation starts from them.
In a 1997 article we wrote on the most significant theater events of the previous year, we quoted Tanghalang Pilipino artistic director Fernando Josef as lamenting that the Cultural Center of the PHilippines (CCP) Playwriting Contest’s “No Winner” results had basically represented to him the dearth of playwrights in Philippine theater.
