‘Tiyo Vanya’ ought to visit again–and stay longer
The TP Actors’ Company’s take on the Chekhov classic by way of Tinio was billed as a ‘recital’–but what a recital!
The TP Actors’ Company’s take on the Chekhov classic by way of Tinio was billed as a ‘recital’–but what a recital!
The bare outline of its story makes “It’s April, What Are We Doing Here?” seem like nothing special. A philanderer is caught red-handed by his wife when she visits the apartment of his young lover, and hijinks ensue. Yet everything else makes it much more than the humdrum comedy of an extramarital affair it appears to be.
The founding artistic director of Dulaang UP is this year’s Gawad CCP Para sa Sining awardee for Theater
The movie version of the Tinio-Cayabyab musical play based on the Nick Joaquin classic, with a virtual constellation of Filipino talents as cast, begins filming this month
For several weekends at the CCP’s Bulwagang Huseng Batute, mother and daughter Gina and Racquel Pareño alternated in the part of Linda Loman, the wife of Willy Loman, in “Pahimakas Ng Isang Ahente,” Tanghalang Pilipino’s production of Arthur Miller’s “Death of a Salesman” as translated into Filipino by National Artist for Theater and Literature Rolando Tinio.
The case of 29-year-old actor Jonathan Tadioan playing the role of 63-year-old Willy Loman in Tanghalang Pilipino’s production of “Pahimakas sa Isang Ahente”—Arthur Miller’s classic “Death of A Salesman” translated into Filipino by Rolando Tinio—can very well be the theater curiosity of the season.
Tanghalang Pilipino’s “Pahimakas sa Isang Ahente” has got to be one of the longest straight (meaning nonmusical) staged dramas in recent history. Clocking at nearly four hours, it’s a bittersweet tale of a once charismatic and perpetually optimistic man on the verge of losing his dreams, his soul and his family (in a manner of speaking).
Tanghalang Pilipino opens ”Pahimakas Sa Isang Ahente,” a Tinio translation of Arthur Miller’s “Death of a Salesman” this September 26 and runs until October 19, Thursdays to Sundays, at the CCP Tanghalang Huseng Batute. Before you catch the Tanghalang Pilipino production, here are eight interesting things to know:
“There is a shifting of emotions in this play; emotions not easy to internalize. There is an American element, but during rehearsals this becomes universal. May mga umiyak. The actors would sometimes cry during rehearsals because they were affected by the situation they were rehearsing, and relating it to their own stories.”
There are those who have yet to get a life again after Nora Aunor was bypassed as National Artist. They simply can’t move on.
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