it's that time of the year again! :) plays, indies, and more plays. :) join the fun and watch!
Virgin Labfest is an annual festival that serves as "a venue for
playwrights, directors and actors to bring to life untried, untested,
unpublished and unstaged plays" held at the Cultural Center of the
Philippines.
related articles here. schedule below :) highly recommended is Set E as I've seen it last year. :)
SET
A
June 27, 3pm &
8pm / July 7, 3pm / July 8, 8pm
Pagsubli - By Aizel Cabilan; directed by Melvin
Lee
An old native man
and a soon-to-be-wed lady from Manila's pagsubli (pagbalik) or
"return" to memory lane unfolds discoveries of each other and of
themselves.
Symposium - By U
Eliserio and Maynard Manansala, directed by JK Anicoche
A girl, a boy, and
his mother. The boy's mother is dead. The girl may or may not have been
involved in the boy's mother's death.
Digital Divide - By
Ricardo Novenario, directed by Andoy Ranay
Students maneuver
the digital divide and how it creates barriers between rich and poor. Or is it
all in the mind?
SET
B
June 28, 3pm &
8pm / July 7, 8pm / July 8, 3pm
Hayop - By Mar Anthony dela Cruz, directed by Erik Matti
Milet is being
treated for dissociative identity disorder. She has five alternate
personalities and one of them may have killed her husband.
Ang Unang Regla ni John
By Em Mendez
Directed by George
de Jesus
A coming-out story
of a young boy brought up in a hyper-machismo family, who, upon discovery of
the first signs of puberty, attempts to shave off the thing he hates most.
Isa Pang Soap Opera - By Reuel Aguila, directed by Dennis
Marasigan
A family grapples
with truth and memory as a mother's Alzheimers disease puts the family memoir
her son has written into question.
SET
C
June 29, 3pm &
8pm / July 4, 3pm / July 6 8pm
Alejandro - By Chuckberry Pascual, directed
by Roeder Camanag
What happens when a
gay man loves a straight man for seven years and has to finally confront the
life he's been living?
Kuneho - By Guelan Luarca, directed by Emman dela Cruz
In exchange for P4
million each, five men are hired by a mysterious employer to transfer a loaded
body bag from one room to another. Then they get locked in.
High Stakes
By Mixkaela Villalon
Directed by Ron
Capinding
Teo Mesina wins the
P700 million lottery jackpot and disappears but grants an exclusive interview a
month later. Teo's friends, relatives, and enemies go after the reporter.
SET
D Full-length play
June 30, 3pm &
8pm / July 4, 8pm / July 5, 3pm
Totong Hilot
By Jose Dennis
Teodosio
Directed by Roobak
Valle
This
autobiographical play chronicles a summer in the life of a ten year old boy as
he contemplates becoming a manghihilot
just like his grandfather.
SET
E Virgin Labfest 7 Revisited
July 1, 3pm &
8pm / July 5, 8pm / July 6 3pm
Kawala By Rae Red, directed by Paolo O'Hara
The intertwined
lives of a condominium's residents affect an important life choice of the
building's elevator boy.
Evening at the Opera By Floy Quintos, directed by Jomari Jose
Miranda Beloto's
obsession with bringing to her impoverished province the first staging of a
full length opera while dealing with her corrupt, insensitive governor husband
and her manipulative mother.
Kafatiran - By Ricardo Novenario, directed by JK
Anicoche
A different side of
history is shown through a faction of smart, art-loving, mild-mannered young
men in the Katipunan at the dawn of the Philippine revolution against Spain.
Staged
readings
July 4, 6pm
Walang Kukurap By Layeta
Bucoy
A suspense thriller
revealing the shady politics and unethical business practices so prevalent in
the Philippines today.
Contact
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