The unsettling beauty of ‘The Kundiman Party’
What is it about Floy Quintos plays? “The Kundiman Party” is a world away from Quintos’ “Angry Christ” last year, but it shares
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What is it about Floy Quintos plays? “The Kundiman Party” is a world away from Quintos’ “Angry Christ” last year, but it shares
“Writing for Friends” could very well have been the other title for “The Kundiman Party,” the new play I have written for Dulaang Unibersidad
Red Turnip Theater’s production of “Tribes,” written by Nina Raine and directed by Topper Fabregas, is one of those plays that beg for repeat
In just three years, Red Turnip Theater has changed the landscape of the commercial theatre scene, proving that the straight play has always been suited to Filipino audiences’ tastes, provided that the content and form are of top-notch quality.
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.
Othello, Richard III, Macbeth, King Lear–now he’s drawing gasps as another towering character, Ludwig van Beethoven, in “33 Variations.”
Red Turnip Theater’s latest production is its most ambitious and most enthralling yet
Shamaine Centenera-Buencamino and Teroy Guzman headline Red Turnip Theater’s production of the acclaimed Moisés Kaufman play on a peculiar Beethoven obsession
“Rite of Passage,” written by Glenn Sevilla Mas, is more than just a typical teenager’s coming-of-age story. It is a quest for survival and sanity when no help is within sight. It is an agonizing education into life’s harsh realities, and a deliberation on whether or not a next step is even possible.
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