“We are just presenting three plays, but in a way we are preparing for 40 more years of DUP,” said the group’s new artistic director, Banaue Miclat-Janssen.
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A roundtable meeting is “a venue for intellectual discussion among the academe, students, playwrights, directors, media and anyone interested in theater,” said Jeffrey Hernandez, council master of the University of the Philippines Theater Council.
The upcoming “Short + Sweet” Theater Festival presents 28 10-minute plays in Filipino and English. These multi-theme, bite-size plays are for regular watchers and those with short attention spans—think speed-dating or Twitter in theater form.
I was pleasantly surprised to see a sizeable swarm of high school seniors being shepherded into UP’s Guerrero theater last Sunday. After seeing the play, I have to wonder what they’re thinking.
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