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Some students may regard it as a hobby until they graduate, while others see it as a bona fide drama course for a long-term career. Regardless of its practitioners’ motivations, the recent developments in university-based theater organizations have transformed campus theater into a serious training ground for students’ professional, intellectual and moral growth once they leave the academe.
This adaptation bridges Shakespeare’s ‘Richard III’ with present-day Philippines to biting effect
Tanghalang Ateneo, the longest-running theater company of the Loyola Schools of the Ateneo de Manila University, presents Glenn Sevilla Mas’ “Rite of Passage: Sa Pagtubu kang Tahud (An adaptation of a Kinaray-a short story by Maria Milagros Geremia Lachica),” beginning Nov. 27 under Ron Capinding’s direction.
One of William Shakespeare’s best-known plays, “Measure for Measure”, opens Dulaang UP’s 39th season and celebrates Shakespeare’s 450th birth anniversary.
A portion of Frances Makil-Ignacio’s dining table is covered in a psychedelic pool of loom bands, some near-spilling from what was supposed to be a cupcake stand.
In producing “Ang Apologia ni Sokrates,” a Filipino stage version of Socrates’ “Apology,” the Ateneo de Manila Philosophy Department dealt with the challenge of making a 4th-century intellectual one-man discourse relevant to college students with a short attention span.
