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| The characters you will encounter in Lambana |
A new theater experience is born on the 4
th
floor of Eastwood Mall in Quezon City, this is the Lambana by Tipsy Tales that
bring its guest to almost 1 hour of experience of whimsical fairy tale that
features Filipino folklore stories.
Founded by Quina Baterna and Wayne Yeang, they get
inspired by travelling abroad and experiencing immersive theater from US, UK
and Singapore, they decided to put up their own version featuring our grown-up
stories of duwende, kapre, sirena and other mythical creatures we all hear from
our lola’s.
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| Wayne Yeang and Quina Baterna |
“From a tourist perspective all they know is beaches, Boracay,
Cebu. And from local perspective the
younger generations don’t know enough about Filipino folklore, the stories are
not being pass to the next generations, so we wanted a show that local and
tourist don’t have to read about Filipino folklore, they can experience
themselves.” Yeang said.
The Lambana stint is a collection of stories from real
people, after thorough research and consultations they come up with authentic
story that are free from western influences that we usually have in many theater
productions in Manila, they want it to make it real for barkada or family
experience, an immersive show base on Filipino folklore.
“Surprising a lot of people in the production have personal
experiences with folklore, and we find it fascinating because a lot of Filipinos
that grow up in the provinces have personal stories, but is not often that you
share, until you are in the safe space to do it, and were quite fascinated by
this, and when we are building the show a lot of inspiration came from sharing
of different people of personal experiences.” Baterna explain.
If succeed continuously, the two founders are aiming to
bring Tipsy tales in the key cities and provinces, probably have it customize
depends on the location so the experience can be real.
“Our show is mostly design for adults, we conceptualize
the idea that adult also need to play, after a tough day at work you want to go
out and get away from your life for a bit, and step in to this play and be the character
in the story, it’s like the video games you play except it’s in real life, we
really want a story that would bring different groups together, come with your
barkada and go on with this adventure and at the end you have different stories
to tell about.” Baterna added.
There is another company that pioneer
immersive theater experience
in Metro Manila that focuses on
horror stories, but Tipsy Tales want it to make
a new and level up experience solely completely immerse feeling with ideas of
including you in that story. So far as of this writing, there are around 300 guests
some are foreigners visit the Lambana world, and its founders are happy with
the feedback.
“We always felt there’s room for immersive theater that
is not just horror, we think there’s
something about really the feeling that your part of the story, the way the
room smell, the room looks, the way you interact with the story, the way the
story changes your decision, and we think the people are ready.” Baterna
declared.
Tipsy tales’s Lambana shows is happening daily from August
19 to September 30 at 1:00pm, 2:30pm, 4:00pm, 5:30pm, 7:00pm and 8:30pm for a
maximum of 15 people per slot (ages 12+). Group ticket rates, discounts (PWD,
Senior Citizen and Student) and kid friendly shows (less than 12 years old) are
available, dropping them a message through
Facebook or
hello@tipsytales.ph. Tickets start at
P2,000 and available thru Ticket2me, only at Eastwood Mall by Megaworld.
“Megaworld is a great partner, even Eastwood mall now is so
innovative, Megaworld was the first big company that believe in us when all we
have is an idea, we didn’t have a team, we didn’t have actors, we didn’t have a
set, but when we told them we wanted to do something like this, they’re like ok,
and that really made difference to us.” Baterna said in closing.
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