Visit us on Instagram To be You; Facebook: To be You; e-mail [email protected] “Green Room! Actors! Prod staff! Everyone on stage… Now!” shouts the production manager before the start of
At first, the larger-than-life crisscrossed balag that framed the audiences as they walked inside the auditorium were for aesthetics. But the moment the stage design and the spatial intervention in
BALAG, the Musical is based on the life story of installation artist, Junyee.
In the early years of the 20th century, as Emilio Aguinaldo surrendered to the Americans, Macario Sakay, commander of the remnants of the Filipino revolutionary army, was branded a bandolero (bandit) by the US forces who had inflicted themselves upon the Philippines. This propaganda continued for decades, and one of Lamberto V. Avellana’s early films, acclaimed at that, depicted Sakay as such.
Dulaang UP’s “Ang Nawalang Kapatid” is a musical adaptation of the Indian epic “Mahabharata,” with book and lyrics by Floy Quintos, music by Ceejay Javier, and direction and choreography by Dexter Santos.
It was the first week of July when the academic community of the University of the Philippines Los Baños communed under the intimate theatre of NCAS Auditorium to witness on stage the struggles of a graduating Vet Med student who succumbed to death after battling acute myeloid leukemia. The story of Alyssa Asilo, who was named “Sexy Ally” in the play, forms a part of the total landscape of UPLB serving as a fertile source of inspiration among the Iskolar ng Bayan. As her ailment threatened to destroy her will to graduate, Alyssa’s determination was undoubtedly unparalleled as she exhausted all the energy left of her deteriorating body to finish her thesis. This type of determination that ran through her disease-stricken blood had moved the audience to nothing but to deepest sympathy and pride.
Nearly two decades after the twin murders of University of the Philippines Los Baños (UPLB) students Eileen Sarmenta and Allan Gomez, terror again gripped this quiet university town tucked at the foot of Mount Makiling 63 kilometers away from restless Metro Manila.
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