Tanghalang Pilipino Summer Theater Adventure 2013

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TANGHALANG PILIPINO (TP), the resident theater company of the Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP), is proud to present the 2013 Summer Theater Adventure, a month-long program of various theatrical activities in different age levels designed to unleash the creative potentials of aspiring theater artists.

TP’s acting workshops have been highly-acclaimed by parents, students and educational institutions for the intensive training and excellent experience it imparts on the participants.

The 2013 Summer Theater Adventure is composed of classes for children, teens and adults facilitated by some of the country’s most outstanding thespians and practitioners in the field. Special lectures are also given by TP’s outstanding alumni.  Each workshop culminates in a recital held at the CCP – Tanghalang Huseng Batute, where students get the chance to be seen by talent scouts. 

WORKSHOP DATES:

April 4-6, 10-13, 16-20, 23-25 2013

April 26, 2013 - RECITAL of Musical Teen Theater / Teen Theater @ 3pm

April 26, 2013 - RECITAL of Beginning Acting / Acting in Musical Theater @ 8pm

April 28, 2013- RECITAL of Children’s Dramatic Theater 1 and 2 @ 3pm

 

EARLY BIRD PROMO:

LIMITED SLOTS ONLY. REGISTER ON OR BEFORE MARCH 15, 2013 AND PAY P6000 (25% DISCOUNT)

 

Course Details	Particulars	Venues
Children’s Dramatic Theater 1 (5-8 years old)  16 sessions Tuesday-Saturday, 9am -12nn  April 4-28, 2013 ***	Creative dramatics for children using games, storytelling techniques, movement, music and masks as tools of expression. Participants perform in a showcase production at the end of the course.	Tanghalang Huseng Batute  (CCP Studio Theater)
Children’s Dramatic Theater 2 (9-12 years old) 16 sessions Tuesday-Saturday, 9am -12nn  April 4-28, 2013 ***	Creative dramatics for children using games, storytelling techniques, movement, music and masks as tools of expression. Participants perform in a showcase production at the end of the course.	Museo ng Kalinangan ng Pilipinas (CCP Multi-Purpose Hall)
Musical Teen Theater 16 sessions (13-16 years old) Tuesday-Saturday, 1pm -5pm April 4-26, 2013 ***	An introduction to performance skills for young adults, the workshop integrates creative drama, music, writing, movement and visual arts to explore themes concerning the youth. Script analysis and voice for theater are likewise incorporated in the course.	Bulwagang Amado Hernandez (CCP Conference Room)
Teen Theater 16 sessions (13-16 years old) Tuesday-Saturday, 1pm -5pm April 4-26, 2013	An introduction to performance skills for young adults, the workshop integrates creative drama, music, writing, movement and visual arts to explore themes concerning the youth. Script analysis and voice for theater are likewise incorporated in the course.	Tanghalang Huseng Batute  (CCP Studio Theater)
*** Beginning Acting (17 years old & above) 18 sessions Tuesday-Saturday, 1pm -5pm April 4-26, 2013 ***	A practical application of the rudiments of acting, including concentration, spontaneity, improvisation, confidence, body and voice preparation, characterization and script analysis to create a unique and authentic life on stage.	Museo ng Kalinangan ng Pilipinas (CCP Multi-Purpose Hall)
Acting in Musical Theater 16 sessions (17 years old and above) Tuesday-Saturday, 6-10pm April 10 to May 4, 2012 ***	An introduction to performance skills for young adults, the workshop integrates creative drama, music, writing, movement and visual arts to explore themes concerning the youth. Script analysis and voice for theater are likewise incorporated in the course.	Museo ng Kalinangan ng Pilipinas (CCP Multi-Purpose Hall)
Production & Stage Management (17 years old and above)  12 sessions Tuesday-Saturday, 6-10pm April 4-28, 2013	Organizing the production, communicating across different disciplines, and keeping everything running smoothly. Learn about the seamless management of the technical as human aspects of a production.	Tanghalang Huseng Batute (CCP Studio Theater)

Summer Workshop Teachers for 2013

 

Childrens Dramatic Theater 1

Facilitator : Marco Viana

Assistant : Remus Villanueva

 

Childrens Dramatic Theater 2

Facilitator: Jonathan Tadioan 

Assistant : Doray Dayao & Ralph Mateo

Teen Theater

Facilitator: Regina De Vera

Co- Facilitator : Jovanni Cadag

 

Beginning Acting
Facilitator: Tuxqs Rutaquio
Assistant : Niccolo Magno

Production & Stage Management

Facilitator: Ed Murillo

 

GUEST FACILITATORS for ADVANCE CLASSES:

 

Floy Quintos on “Acting for Musical Theater” – April 4-26, 2013 (T-Th) 6-10pm / MKP CCP

 

Chris Millado on “Acting Theories” – May 7-9 & 14-16, 2013 (T-Th)

9am-12nn / Arts In the City, Bonifacio Global City Taguig

Rody Vera on “Interpreting Shakespeare” - May 21-23 & 28-30, 2013 (T-Th)

9am-12nn / Arts In the City, Bonifacio Global City Taguig

 

WORKSHOP FEE: Php8,000.00 (Inclusive of All Materials & Recital Fee)For Reservations:

• Call at 822-6920 / 8323661 / 8321125 loc. 1620 / 1621 and look for Lorelei Celestino

• Email tanghalanprod@yahoo.com 

or check out new website: www.tanghalangpilipino.org.ph

• Visit Tanghalang Pilipino Foundation, Inc. 2/F PDC Bldg., CCP Complex,

Roxas Blvd., Pasay City

IBALONG – A Dance Musical Of Bicolano Epic

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“Ibalong” highlights the preservation of our environment in a magical and musical setting. Entitled after Legazpi City’s week-long festivity, “Ibalong,” the musical tells the story of Handyong and his warriors who come to Bicol – formerly known as Ibalon – and wage war against beasts and monsters pillaging the land’s natural wealth. Handyong mightily battles creatures bearing a solitary eye and three throats, several winged sharks, and wild carabaos.

In introducing civilization to the barbaric land, Handyong matches wit and might with the scheming snake, Oryol.  A master of deceit, Oryol disguises herself into a sweet, young lady in order to seduce Handyong. But not to be outwitted, Handyong eventually makes Oryol fall in love with him.

Their love story – between a warrior and a monster – defines the greatness of Bicol as it explores an individual’s capacity for good and evil, and a land’s history marked by progress and destruction.

Tanghalang Pilipino caps its 26th season with a dance-theatre musical interpretation of the Bicolano epic, “Ibalong,” adapted for the stage by prolific playwright Rody Vera and directed by Tuxqs Rutaquio with Carol Bello’s musical direction, and Alden Lugnasin’s choreography.

IBALONG opens with a gala premiere on February 8 at the Tanghalang Aurelio V. Tolentino, Cultural Center of the Philippines at 8pm. The musical will run until March 3, 2013.

The cast of IBALONG include Jenine Desiderio - Oryol; May Bayot - Gugurang; Myke Salomon - Handyong; Red Nuestro - Opon; Delphine Buencamino - Koro / Understudy Oryol; Trixie Esteban - Young Oryol / Koro; Cheeno Macaraig - Young Handyong / Makusog / Kawal/ibingan; Tara Cabaero - Buring/Anino; Hazel Maranan - Onglo/Anino; Opaline Santos - Sarimao/Anino; Kristofer Kliatchko -Angongolood/Kawal; Cyril Balderama - Sarimao/Kawal; and Philip Palmos - Kikik.

The ensemble is composed of TP’s Actor's Company featuring Jonathan Tadioan - Aswang / Koro; Marco Viaña -   Rabot/Koro; Remus Villanueva - Handyong / Kawal/Angongolood; Nicolo Magno -    Baltog / Koro; Ralph Mateo -Bantong / Kalabaw/ Tambaluslos/Kawal; Regina De Vera - Bonggo/Anino; Jovanni Cadag -Sarimao ; and Doray Dayao - Popo/Anino.

Nanding Josef, Artistic Director of Tanghalang Pilipino cited that this production which is being done in cooperation with the Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP) and the City of Legazpi of Bicol, is a special offering to the Bicolanos and the rest of the Filipino people who are committed to protecting our natural resources and cultural heritage from the onslaught of irresponsible commercialism, modernization, frenetic world trade and homogenizing globalization ---- all hiding under the name of human progress and development, but in reality, are all motivated by self-centered motives and selfish interests of the greedy, materialistic, powerful evil creatures of this earth which was originally created by the Supreme Being only for everything that is good, true and beautiful.

Janine  Desiderio and cast presentation during the Ibalong Press Conference 

SYNOPSIS

The play will focus on the middle story of the Ibalong epic fragment, since we feel this is the most substantial of the three seemingly separate stories of the short poem. We focus on Handyong when he and his warriors come to Bicol and wage war against the wild creatures of the land. Handyong uses might to wipe out the wild creatures perceived as barbaric and monstrous. There are beasts with one eye and three throats.  Winged sharks ploughing the deep, wild carabaos were all subdued.

It seems that Handyong the mighty has begun to subdue the land of Bicol in the name of civilization except for Oryol, the sagacious snake. Handyong is eluded by Oryol. she then appears as a sweet young thing, as a way of seducing him. Oryol was a champion of deceit.

This is why Handyong finds a way to lure Oryol to help him. In the end, Oryol agrees to help Handyong destroy her own kind for a great deception that our hero is able to heap on the snake. Handyong makes the snake monster fall in love with him.

The land is set free when Oryol betrays the wild creatures of the land of Bicol. Handyong's heroism is fully established. But not without a tinge of guilt.

This love story between a mighty warrior and a monster becomes the central focus of the Ibalong, the capacity for good and evil, for progress and destruction, love and deceit are equally imprinted in the descendants of Handyong. The precarious balance between these two opposites defines the greatness of the land of Bicol.

The artistic team of IBALONG is led by Nanding Josef  ( Artistic Director ), Rody Vera ( Playwright ); Tuxqs Rutaquio ( Director/Set Designer ); Carol Bello (Composer/Musical Director ); Rizalino Reyes & Inkantada, All-Women Group (Arranger );  Leeroy New ( Costume & Puppet Designer ); Alden Lugnasin (Choreographer ); Katsch Catoy ( Lights Designer and Technical Director ) and   TJ Ramos ( Sound Designer ).

The production team is composed of Jennifer Bautista ( Production Manager ),  Alpha Joy Ruiz ( Deputy Production Manager ),  Jo  Ann Requiestas ( Assistant Production Manager ), Jerome Aytona ( Stage Manager ), Noel Taylo and Eric Sindol ( Assistant Stage Managers ), Daniel Gregorio ( Costume Custodian ), Zaldy Baldelobar ( Property Master ), Raphael David (Make-Up and Prosthetic Artist ), and Jerry Ramirez ( Stunt Choreography ).

The Marketing / Sales, and publicity group is led by Cherry Bong Z. Edralin ( Marketing Manager ), Toots Tolentino ( Publicist ), Jojit Lorenzo ( Photography ), Carlo Vergara  ( Poster Design ),  Joan Abubo ( Ticket Officer ),   Lorelei Celestino ( Marketing & Sales Associate ) and Juan Lorenzo Marco ( Sales Executive ).   

The schedule of performances of IBALONG are as follows: 

( Fri ) February 8, 15, 22, March 1, 2013 at 8:00 pm; 

( Sat ) February 9, 16, 23, March 2, 2013 at 3:00 pm and 8:00 pm; 

( Sun ) February 10, 17, 24, March 3, 2013 at 3:00 pm.

Ticket prices are: 

P 800.00 ( regular ); 

P 400.00 ( students ) and 

P 640.00 (for senior citizens -- 20% discount on the regular price)

 For  the  Feb.  8  gala  night, tickets  are  at  

P 1,000.00  ( regular );  

P 500.00  ( students ) and 

P 800.00 ( for senior citizens -- 20% discount on the regular price)

Support our contribution to save our planet, our environment, and our cultural heritage. 

Don’t fail to watch IBALONG!

With elaborate costumes, energetic fight choreography, and haunting music, IBALONG guarantees audiences of all ages an enthralling experience rarely seen in original Filipino theatre.

Tickets are now available at all TicketWorld Outlets.  Call TicketWorld at 891-9999  and CCP Box Office at 832-3704

For inquiries on ticket reservations, group sales, sponsorships, special performances, call Tanghalang Pilipino at 832-1125 local 1620/1621 or contact Cherry Bong Z. Edralin at 0917-750-0107, 0918-959-3949 for more details.

Visit our website at www.tanghalangpilipino.org.ph or
E-mail us at ccptanghalan@yahoo.com or cherry_edralin888@yahoo.com.

Bucoy’s ‘Walang Kukurap’ explores the darkest Filipino soul

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After a successful run of the 110-year-old sarswela of Severino Reyes’ ‘Walang Sugat’, Tanghalang Pilipino (TP), Cultural Center of the Philippines’ (CCP) resident theater company presents a highly-controversial play ‘Walang Kukurap’, written by Ms. Layeta Bucoy, considered by many as Quentin Tarantino’s female in theaters. Ms. Layeta Bucoy’s play is set to open on September 14 at CCP’s Tanghalang Huseng Batute.

In an interview with the playwright Layeta Bucoy, she mentioned that she got inspired by a political blogger named Christopher Bonoan that brought her attention to the Article 11 Section 1 of the 1987 Philippine Constitution, which states that public office is a public trust. Public officers and employees must, at all times, be accountable to the people, serve them with utmost responsibility, integrity, loyalty, and efficiency; act with patriotism and justice, and lead modest lives.

Bucoy stressed: “The questions that lingered in my mind: But what if the public office is taken as the extension of one's private or personal interests or what if the public office is perceived as the means to further such interests? What if public trust is ignored for the public office is treated as a private trust fund?”

The play is highly political in nature that explores the darkest Filipino soul. ‘Walang Kukurap’ as a production will serve as a forceful reminder that if people do not take the responsibility to better this world, then there is no need to die just to experience hell.

The same team that brought Dulaang UP’s shocking adaptation of William Shakespeare’s ‘Titus Andronicus’ is the artistic collaboration between the director-playwright tandem of Tuxqs Rutaquio and Layeta Bucoy together with TP’s homegrown talents—the Actors Company led by Jonathan Tadioan, Marco Viaña, Regina De Vera, Nicolo Magno, Ralph Mateo, Remus Villanueva, Doray Dayao, April Joy Iñigo, and Jovanni Cadag.

It will also feature veteran and competent theater actors who have crossed over to the mainstream arts, like Suzette Ranillo, Sherry Lara, Mymy Davao, Crispin Pineda, Pewee O’Hara, Lou Veloso, Ding Navasero, Nar Cabico, and Delphine Buencamino. 

With the TP Actors Company:

JONATHAN TADIOAN

MARCO VIANA

REGINA DE VERA

NICOLO MAGNO

RALPH MATEO

REMUS VILLANUEVA

DORAY DAYAO

APRIL JOY INIGO

JOVANNI CADAG

Another highlight of this second offering is the featuring of GLOC 9 on special dates of its run.

For more details of the play please visit, Tanghalang Pilipino’s official website on tanghalangpilipino.org.ph or contact TP office at (632) 832-1125 locals 1620/1621 or +639177500107 or call TicketWorld at (632) 891-999. The show will run until October 7.

Tatlong Tabing, A Tony Perez Trilogy

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Tony Perez, who has spent over two decades eloquently dissecting the Filipino Psyche, is an important playwright in contemporary Philippine drama. A prolific playwright with several volumes of published works, his plays deal with adult themes such as intense love, betrayal, separation, compassion, poverty, hunger, marriage, birth, and death. This trilogy traces his artistic development as a playwright. Sierra Lakes is a tension-filled play that explores issues among four people caught in a complicated web of love and desire. Bombita is a black comedy which questions the blind obedience and subservience behaviour of young rookies in the military. Funny, but almost in a pathetic way, it reveals the emotional and intellectual short-comings of our men in uniform. A psychological drama, Nobyembre, Noong Akala Ko’y Mahal Kita is the second play in the multi-awarded playwright’s thought-provoking trilogy about love, friendship and companionship, and their consequences in our lives.

The Cast

SIERRA LAKES: 

BODIE CRUZ,       ADRIENNE VERGARA,       RAYNA REYES, 

DAN JARDEN DE GUZMAN,         REGINA DE VERA

BOMBITA: 

RIKI BENEDICTO, JONATHAN TADIOAN, JELSON BAY, MARCO VIANA, 

GINO RAMIREZ, RUSSELL LEGASPI, MARTHA COMIA, REGINA DE VERA,

 ACEY AGUILAR ANTHONY FALCON

NOBYEMBRE, NOONG AKALA KO MAHAL KITA:

MAYEN ESTAÑERO, MAJORIE LORICO, JONATHAN TADIOAN

Artistic Staff:

TESS JAMIAS – SIERRA LAKES

DENNIS MARASIGAN – BOMBITA

TUXQS RUTAQUIO – NOBYEMBRE, NOONG AKALA KO MAHAL KITA

PRODUCTION DESIGNER            -      TUXQS RUTAQUIO

LIGHTING DESIGNER                   -      DENNIS MARASIGAN

SOUND DESIGNER                         -      TJ RAMOS

Venue:                  Tanghalang Huseng Batute (Studio Theater), Cultural Center of the Philippines

Ticket Prices:       Regular: Php 800, Senior Citizen: Php 640, Student: Php 400

For Reservation: Tanghalang Pilipino: 832.3661/832.1125 loc. 1620-21      

CCP Box Office: 832.3704

Play Dates & Other Information

Show Schedule: Fridays at 8:00pm, Saturdays at 3:00pm & 8:00pm; Sundays at 3:00pm

DATE & TIME	PLAY/S
September 30, 8:00 PM	Nobyembre, Noong Akala Ko’y Mahal Kita
October 1, 3:00 PM	Nobyembre, Noong Akala Ko’y Mahal Kita
October 1, 8:00 PM	Nobyembre, Noong Akala Ko’y Mahal Kita
October 2, 3:00 PM	Nobyembre, Noong Akala Ko’y Mahal Kita
October 7, 8:00 PM	Sierra Lakes/Bombita
October 8, 3:00 PM	Sierra Lakes/Bombita
October 8, 8:00 PM	Sierra Lakes/Bombita
October 9, 3:00 PM	Sierra Lakes/Bombita
October 14, 8:00 PM	Sierra Lakes/Bombita
October 15, 3:00 PM	Sierra Lakes/Bombita
October 15, 8:00 PM	Nobyembre, Noong Akala Ko’y Mahal Kita
October 16, 3:00 PM	Nobyembre, Noong Akala Ko’y Mahal Kita
October 21, 8:00 PM	Nobyembre, Noong Akala Ko’y Mahal Kita
October 22, 3:00 PM	Nobyembre, Noong Akala Ko’y Mahal Kita
October 22, 8:00 PM	Sierra Lakes/Bombita
October 23, 3:00 PM	Sierra Lakes/Bombita

Noli Me Tangere: The Musical

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In honor of Jose Rizal’s 150th birthday, "Noli Me Tangere: The Musical" will officially open Tanghalang Pilipino’s 25th theater season.

The critically acclaimed musical, adapted by Ryan Cayabyab from Rizal’s most famous work with libretto by National Artist Bienvenido Lumbera, will be restaged under the direction of theater luminary Audie Gemora. Costume design is by National Artist Salvador Bernal.

Leading the cast as Crisostomo Ibarra are singer/TV host Mark Bautista (alternating with Arnold Reyes) and Cris Villonco as Maria Clara (understudied by Tasy Garucha). Joining them are Jerald Napoles and Riki Benedicto (Elias), Al Gatmaitan and Reyes (Padre Salvi), Ring Antonio (Don Victorina), Garry Lim (Don Tiburcio) alternating with Jonathan Tadioan, Red Nuestro (Kapitan Tiago), Jenny Villegas (Tia Isabel), Angeli Bayani (Sisa) and Paolo Rodriguez (leproso).

The ensemble includes Jenny Garcia, Pamela Imperial, Janine Santos, Sherine Ann Koa, Hazel Maranan, Diana Sison, Kat Castillo, Martha Comia, Erick Arenas, Gino Ramirez, Chesko Rodriguez, Jejie Esguerra, Von Ryan Yu, Berl William Angeles, Paolo Rodriguez, Baron Barbers and Greg de Leon.

Comprising the artistic staff are Audie Gemora (director), Rody Vera (dramaturg), Ryan Cayabyab (composer and arranger), Bienvenido Lumbera (librettist), Jed Balsamo (musical director), Mio Infante (set designer), Salvador Bernal (costume designer), Eric Cruz (costume consultant) Katsch Catoy (lighting designer), Agnes Locsin (choreographer) and Christine Crame (dance master.

"Noli Me Tangere: The Musical" runs August 5-28, 2011 at the Tanghalang Aurelio Tolentino (CCP Little Theater). Interested sponsors, show-buyers and block buyers may call Tanghalang Pilipino (632) 8323661 or 8321125 local 1620/1621, or CCP box-office 8323704.

Ryan Cayabyab, Composer and Musical Arranger

Audie Gemora, Director

Cris Villonco , Maria Clara

Marck Bautista , Crisostomo Ibarra

Gian Magdangal, Crisostomo Ibarra

Bodjie Pascua, Padre Damaso