Manila’s two major campus-based theater groups announce their season offerings for the school year 2011-2012. Both groups will commemorate Philippine...
Campus-based theater groups are concluding their respective 2011-2012 seasons.
TANGHALANG ATENEO closes its 34th season with the first Philippine staging of “The King of the Birds,” from the classic Persian poem by Farid ud-Din Attar, as scripted by Jean Claude Carriere and Peter Brook. It tells the story of a nation of birds embarking on a difficult journey to meet their one true King.
After staging the musical epic “Labaw Donggon: Ang Banog ng Sanlibutan,” Ateneo Entablado (ENterteynmentparasaTAo, Bayan, LAnsangan, at DiyOs) kicks off its 31st season called “Personalan Na!” with a restaging of the CCP- award winning play “Buwan at Baril.”
Prolific playwright Floy Quintos will premiere three new works this season via campus theater groups Tanghalang Ateneo and Dulaang Unibersidad ng Pilipinas (DUP) in their productions for school year 2013-2014.
Tanghalang Ateneo opens its 2013-2014 season with “Ang Oresteyas,” BJ Crisostomo’s Tagalog translation and adaptation of ancient Greek playwright Aeschylus’ trilogy “The Oresteia.”
In the original Greek classic “Oresteia,” written by Aeschylus, the madness in the House of Atreus ends on a happy note. But in Tanghalang Ateneo’s version, “Ang Oresteyas,” the conclusion is more ambiguous; the play places the protagonist’s fate in the hands of the live theater audience, and ends with a question mark.
Tanghalang Ateneo stages “Ang Bakkhai (The Bacchae)” by Euripides on September 12-14, and 18–21 at the Black Box, Fine Arts Annex, Ateneo de Manila University. The Filipino adaptation is by Guelan Luarca.
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.
Valentine’s Day falls on a weekend. Let it be that time of the year when you take your loved one to the theater. Here are shows—from the funny to the sexy—ongoing this Valentine Month.
