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Stagers summer workshop is now 12 years old and counting
For 12 years now, Philippine Stagers Foundation, Inc
continue its legacy of discovering talents thru Stage Acting, Theater
Direction, Production Designs, and Writing scripts, all in two months of Summer
Workshop, headed by its founder, Atty. Vince Tanada.
The 2019 batch is around 120 students that undergo screening
in order to be part of this year’s
summer activity, the selection according to Tanada is due to the fact that this
year is an extensive workshop program from acting to directing, this is in
preparation for the next venture of PSF which is producing film scheduled last
quarter of the year.
The PSF Summer Theater Workshop 2019 is sponsored by
Filipino Theater Icon R.S Francisco and his company, the Frontrow.
The usual acting showdown and direction of mini play by the
Stagers members still happen, we manage to witness one whole afternoon
screening 6 productions in their mini-studio in Balic-Balic, in Sampaloc
Manila, from newbie actors to veteran stagers, we are all delighted to watch
how they execute all those plays mostly written by Tanada himself.
Atty. Vince Tanada
“Ganun pa rin ang objective namin, we are presenting
experimental plays because we are quite used to presenting educational plays
during our on-season production, kaya this is our way to feed our passion, to
present something different from the usual things that we do,” Tanada said.
All the play presented last May 11 are the following, Sa Parlor by PSF member JP Lopez, Sa
Carinderia by Chin Ortega, Sa Barong-Barong by Adelle Barrientos-Lim, La Vie En
Rosa by John Rey Rivas, Walang Mukha Si Dessa and the revisited play “Lubid” by Jeric Clarisse Sanchez
are all in for competition, plus the previous production in a month-long run of
the workshop.
This year’s set of Jury is composed of thespians from movie
industry such as Film Director Emman Dela Cruz, Film Producer Moira Lang,
Veteran Actress Dexter Doria and TV Director Will Fredo.
With this year's Jury and Stagers, Vince Larena, Judge Moira Lang, Stagers JP Lopez and Jeric Clarisse Sanchez, PSF Founder Vince Tanada, Film Director Emman Dela Cruz and TV Director Will Fredo.
This workshop and a theater festival as well is down to its
last week, as tradition the last to be stage is the Palanca Award-winning play
of Tanada in title “Ang Bangkay”, it has two screening dates this coming June 1, 2019, 7pm. Tickets are P500
that you can purchase directly at the gate of PSF Studio, the address is 411
G.Tuazon St Sampaloc Manila. Or send them a message thru their Facebook page
for inquiries.
Spoliarium, an opera with libretto by Soprano Fides Cuyugan-Asensio and with music by Ryan Cayabyab was the first production I saw pertaining to the life of Juan Luna. Originally staged at the CCP in 2003 starring Robert Seña at the titular role, the opera was staged in Tribeca Performing Arts Center in New York thirteen years later. Philippine Stagers Foundation (PSF) current production of "Obra Ni Juan " was my follow-up. This original Filipino musical was written by Atty. Vince Tañada, PSF President and Artistic Director and with music by Peter Paul "Pipo" Cifra, president of UST Conservatory of Music Alumni Association Incorporated, marked as my first production I saw from PSF. Established in 2002, PSF is a professional theater company with an objective of helping the poor, elderly, sick and even the forgotten, has been consistently conducting free theater workshop in schools nationwide and continuously organizing outreach programs to various charities
Princess Laura, Prince Florante, Prince Aladin and Princess Flerida. Amidst innovations and new techniques in presenting play, the Gantimpala Theater Foundation, Inc stand in delivering the Filipino classic story “Florante At Laura” in a traditional way as they open 38 th Season. They use the Komedya complete with majestic marches and grand batalia for the entire run of Florante and Laura. Theater thespian Roeder Camanag told us that they have preliminary talks and briefing with schools on how the classic way of theater production on stage. Camanag direct this year’s Florante at Laura with Paul Jake Paule playing Florante and Ellrica Laguardia as Laura. Ace Urieta is Adolfo, Jeffrey Carpio is Aladin, and Sharlene Rivera and Ira Ruzz is alternating for Flerida. Florante At Laura as well know is written by Francisco Balagtas, it’s one of the most epic and enduring Filipino literary masterpieces. Boni Ilagan write the script for the staging that Camanag claim a very
JOIN the Pinoy Readers Toastmasters Club in the online book discussion of Ani 41: Lakbay on June 5, 3pm, via Zoom. A speech club and a book club in one, Pinoy Readers Toastmasters Club was chartered as a club by Toastmasters International on March 29, 2021. Aside from their desire to improve their communication and leadership skills, the 28 members of the club are all passionate lovers of literary works, especially those written by Filipino authors. The Ani 41 book discussion will be moderated by Beverly Siy, club treasurer and head of the CCP Intertextual Division. Edited by award-winning writer and editor Herminio S. Beltran, Jr., with Mia P. Tijam as the special section editor, the latest edition of Ani, the official literary journal of the Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP), features multilingual Philippine literary works on travel. It contains 146 literary works in various literary genres, selected from over thousands of submissions from different parts of the coun
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