The re-staging of Tanghalang Pilipino Foundation’s much-awarded play with music, “Anak Datu,” welcomes new and returning guest actors at the only resident theater company of the Cultural Center of the Philippines.
MANILA -- The re-staging of Tanghalang Pilipino’s much-awarded play with music, “Anak Datu,” welcomes new and returning guest actors of the resident theater company of the Cultural Center of the Philippines.
In 2019, he was part of J. Dennis Teodosio’s “Surrogare” about a gay couple who hired a mother to have their child. And just this year, he had a cameo role in Jules Pamisa’s satirical play on extra-judicial killings titled “Mga Halimaw Din Kami.” “ was my first acting experience. I played Khalil, one of the lead characters,” he told ABS-CBN News.
Onida was a VLF pioneer athough he didn’t act during the festival’s inaugural year in 2005. He was tech director for Debbie Ann Tan’s “Fate’s Line.” Arula also acts as narrator and the role has long monologues. On the third weekend, it took a toll on Josef’s health. Good thing, the versatile actor Nor Domingo was available and was able to memorize the text on short notice to fill in for the usual five-show weekend staging. Josef returned on the fourth and final weekend.“Anak Datu” is the first original work of TP staged after the three-year long series of lockdowns due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
“Visually, we’ve raised the traverse playing area by a foot so the projections on the floor — the blues, the pinks and oranges of Abdulmari’s projected canvasses — are now visible all the way to the last row.” Playing the kulintang is the magnificent master percussionist Jan Andre Garcia with Kent Bryan Capistrano for agung and Vennies Labaupa for the dabakan.
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