CCP Festival
4TH NATIONAL THEATER FESTIVAL
GENERAL INFORMATION SHEET
CONFERENCE
November 8-10, 2012
Silangan Hall
PLENARY SESSSIONS ARE OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
The 2012 National Theater Festival (NTF) dubbed as “Ika-apat na
Tagpo, Ikalawang Yugto” is the 4rth since 1992. It has always been
implemented with various component including a conference. This year,
the conference will focus on the premise that theater is part of the
dynamic and growing creative industry in the Philippines.
EXHIBIT
November 8-18, 2012
Tanghalang Aurelio Tolentino Lobby
As a supplementary program to the National Theater Festival (NTF), an
exhibition will be mounted at the Bulwagang Carlos Francisco (Little
Theater Lobby) to introduce the thirteen (13) featured theater groups.
This will be organized with the assistance of the Visual Arts and Museum
Division (VAMD).
PERFORMANCES
at the TANGHALANG AURELIO TOLENTINO
STAGESHOW
Tanghalang Pilipino (NCR)
November 7, 2012 at 8:00 PM
November 8, 2012 at 8:00 PM (Invitational)
November 9, 2012 at 3:00 PM
“Stageshow,” a musical by Mario O’ Hara is about a group of Filipino
artists in the twilight of their careers, set against the dying days of
the bodabil-also known as “stage shows.” Chris Millado will direct, with
musical direction by Jeff Hernandez.
TAMBLOT THE MUSICAL
Bohol Cultural Collective
November 9, 2012 at 8:00 PM
November 10, 2012 at 3:00 PM
On pre-historic and early colonial Bohol using Pangalay form and music theater idioms
PETA
(still to be determined)
SINTANG DALISAY
Tanghalang Ateneo (NCR)
November 11, 2012 at 3:00 PM & 8:00 PM
Sintang Dalisay, based on the awit “Ang Sintang
Dalisay ni Julieta at Romeo” by GD Roke, is set in an imaginary Muslim
community in the Philippines, with the Mustaphas and the Kalimuddins as
two prominent families mired in an age-old hatred for each other. Caught
in this family strife are Rashiddin and Jamila, two lovers who get
themselves secretly married but are forced to separate from each other
after Rashiddin, in self-defense, slays a member of the Kalimuddin clan.
A demand for justice, Rashiddin’s exile to Dapitan, a clandestine tryst
between the two lovers, a missing letter and a scheme involving
poisonous potions that goes awry culminate in the death of the lovers
and the reconciliation of the two families smothered in grief and
regret. Sintang Dalisay is told using dance, song, drama and live music. The dance is drawn from the igal,
a dance tradition of the Sama in South Ubian and Sitangkai, Tawi-Tawi,
and taught to the cast by indigenous artists from these places. The
music, performed by a live ensemble, draws from several Philippine
indigenous musical traditions yet anchored in the kulintangan rhythms
of the Sulu archipelago. Hailed by local and international audiences,
this production is a way to build appreciation and pride in Filipino
performance heritage and a stimulating supplement to classes in social
studies, literature, art, and music. And at its core, Sintang Dalisay is, truly, a collaborative project between Muslim and Christian artists pursuing a common creative enterprise.
KAKARONG (Musical)
Barasoain Kalinangan Ensemble Inc. (Luzon)
November 13, 2012 at 8:00 PM
November 14, 2012 at 3:00 PM
MIND’S EYE
Trumpets (NCR)
November 16, 2012 at 3:00 & 8:00 PM
Elva, an eighty-eight year-old former literature and drama teacher
convinces Courtney, a sixteen-year-old girl, paralyzed from the waist
down from a riding accident, to embark on an imaginary trip of Italy
with the help of an old travel guide. Elva, steeped in the knowledge of
literature and art, is eager and enthusiastic about visiting the great
museums and architectural wonders of Italy but Courtney, with no
knowledge or interest in either and bitter about her condition, is less
so. Each of them traveling for her own reasons, teenaged Courtney
gradually wrests control of the trip, taking it toward an unexpected
destination.
OROSMAN AT ZAFIRA
Dulaang UP (NCR)
November 17, 2012 at 8:00 PM
November 18, 2012 at 3:00 PM
Directed and choreographed by Dexter M. Santos and with original
music by Carol Bello, the contemporary adaptation garnered nominations
for both Best Musical Production and Best Stage Director at the 21st
Aliw Awards. It also received acclamation from various renowned critics
and artists.
The play is about the enmity due to thirst for power and the beliefs
of three tribes – the Marruecos, Tedenst and Duquela. In the midst of
hate and war whence two individuals find love, this adaptation
highlights its women characters in their unyielding strength. This
production also celebrates the Philippine heritage through its
ethno-linguistic music and the fusion of modern and cultural movements.
Dulaang UP is a semi-professional university-based theatre company,
which serves as the foundation for UP Theatre students’ professional
exposure in the performing arts, training them in the fields of
performance as well as technical, stage and production management.
Comprising the artistic team are Tuxqs Rutaquio (roduction design);
John Ilao Batalla (lights design); Anril Tiatco, Katte Sabate and
Patrick Valera (dramaturges); Paolo Rodriguez (accessories design);
Jojit Lorenzo (photographer); Mara Marasigan (assistant director) and
Via Antonio (associate choreographer).
at the TANGHALANG HUSENG BATUTE
DULA TA
Sining Kabpapagariya (Mindanao)
November 9, 2012 at 2:00 & 7:00 PM
A play that views Mindanao conflict from the children’s point of view.
UWAHIG
Integrated Performing Arts Guild (Mindanao)
November 10,2012 at 2:00 PM & 7:00 PM
A deconstruction of the Mindanao Indarapatra epic
and the Bukidnon water legend. The play resets into the mythic realm of
wars, violence, and the degradation of the environment in Mindanao’s
post colonial and post modern landscape.
UBU ROI
Sipat Lawin Ensemble (NCR)
November 11, 2012 at 7:00 PM
Guerilla theatre company Sipat Lawin Ensemble revisits their
device-work, adaptation of French Playwright Alfred Jarry’s avant-garde
play Ubu Roi. An interactive, explosive, fun, filthy, power play, last
year’s performance of Haring +ubu- l was a pre and post elections
investigation of Philippine politics, culture and society. This year,
Haring +ubu-l aims to revisit, re-investigate, remind, and re-expose the
subject of excesses and exploits as represented by the performers, the
audiences and their consciousness. Set inside a toilet bowl, HARING
+UBU-L pukes excess filth, greed, avarice, gluttony, ambition, filth,
greed, avarice, gluttony, ambition filth… “The medium is the message,”
says JK Anicoche, Artistic Director of Sipat Lawin Ensemble.
WALANG KUKURAP
Tanghalang Pilipino (NCR)
November 13, 2012 at 2:00PM & 7:00 PM
By the theater collective composed of Layeta Bucoy, Tuxqs Rutaquio,
Nanding Josef & the TP Actors Company
Directed by Tuxqs Rutaquio
Nanding Josef & the TP Actors Company
Directed by Tuxqs Rutaquio
Based on the findings of artist-researchers as well as first-hand
testimony from government whistle-blowers and anonymous syndicate
insiders, the theater collective creates a mind-bending analysis of
corruption and graft. A suspense thriller which – by combining
traditional theatre with live interviews and unscripted performances –
blurs the line between reality and fiction as it reveals the shady
politics and unethical business practices so prevalent in the
Philippines today. WALANG KUKURAP will also address the continued
atrophy of the Filipino identity and how this decay lends itself to the
greatest corruption of all – the coopting of national character and
self-worth for short-term material gains.
ISA PANG KAWING
The Xavier Stage (Mindanao)
November 15, 2012 at 2:00 PM and 7:00 PM
It tackles the issues on betrayal of trust and confidence motivated
and conditioned by tradition, politics, gender and abuse of power.
SAYAW NG MGA SENIORITA
Gantimpala Theater Foundation (NCR)
November 16, 2012 at 3:00 PM & 8:00 PM
OTHER VENUES
CIRKULO
Kanlaon Theater and Dance Guild (Bacolod)
Main Ramp
November 10,2012 at 7:00 PM
LIVIN LA VIDA IMELDA
Carlos Celdran (NCR)
Silangan Hall
November 11, 13, and 15 2012 at 7:00 PM
Livin’ La Vida Imelda is the story of the rise and fall of Imelda Marcos, as illustrated by the rise and fall of the buildings in the Cultural Center of the Philippines Complex.
It is Carlos Celdran’s Walking Imelda tour of the Cultural Center of the Philippines set in a fixed gallery with line drawings of the CCP buildings and a complete supporting ensemble to provide drama and comedy to Imelda’s story.This is the untold tale of Manila as shared through tsismis and told via an entertaining Carlos Celdran monologue.
BATTALIA ROYALE
Sipat Lawin Ensemble (NCR)
CCP Ramp
November 14, 2012 at 7:00 PM
Sipat Lawin Ensemble collaborates with Australian playwrights David Finnigan, Jordan Prosser, Sam Burns-Warr, and Georgie McAuley in Battalia Royale. This production is a live-game performance and loose-adaptation of Koushun Takami’s 2001 novel, Battle Royale. A controversial and hugely popular text, Battle Royale has since been produced as a film and a manga series. The Ensemble’s Battalia Royale is the first loose stage adaptation of Takami’s novel.
SPIT
Silly People’s Improv Theater (NCR)
Silangan Hall
November 16,2012 at 7:00 PM
ONY CARCAMO AND WANLU PUPPETEERS
(NCR)
Silangan Hall
November 17,2012 at 3:00 PM
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