‘Janus Silang 2’ is catnip to its millennial audience
Succinctly directed, though a bit too expository
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Succinctly directed, though a bit too expository
Earlier this year, excitement greeted Tanghalang Ateneo’s (TA) staging of Edgar Samar’s young adult series, “Si Janus Silang at ang Tiyanak ng Tabon.”
Millennials will enjoy this stage adaptation of Edgar Samar’s young adult novel about a Pinoy gamer’s fantastical coming of age
An old man wearing the salakot enters the stage, warning others not to fall prey to the machinations of the tiyanak. A kapre smokes his cigar. The manananggal flaps her wings with her entrails hanging. And the bungisngis leers down the audience who are horrified at the dark creatures of Philippine folklore.
Edgar Samar’s folklore-infused work debuts as a Tanghalang Ateneo production this February
By any standard—quantity, quality, variety—it has been an amazing year for Philippine theater. There was a stretch from June to mid-December when I counted at
Yearend lists, film critic Richard Bolisay wrote early this year, are only “the writer’s vain idea of playing favorites and revealing his ‘preferences…’” So
Kalil Almonte reprises Romeo in this Filipino ‘Romeo and Juliet’ that moves to the Sama-Badjao dance ‘igal’
One grabs the soul; the other drains it
Tanghalang Ateneo opens its 38th season with “Boy,” a thought-provoking new play by award-winning American playwright Anna Ziegler, running Oct. 19-Nov. 12 at Ateneo de Manila’s Black Box Theater (Fine Arts Annex).
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