Tanghalang Pilipino & Writers Bloc — The Virgin Labfest 2
After the sensational hit of last year’s Virgin
Labfest, the Cultural Center of the Philippines,
Tanghalang Pilipino and the Writers Bloc, in
cooperation with the National Commission for Culture
and the Arts, proudly present its second edition of
untried / untested / unpublished / unstaged works,
from July 7 to 16, 2006 at the CCP Tanghalang Huseng
Batute.
This year’s festival features fifteen new plays culled
from the year-long regular series of readings by the
Writers Bloc, and penned by some of the country’s
finest breed of vibrant and prolific playwrights:
I. Opening
July 7, 2006 (Friday) 8PM
A glimpse of Virgin Labfest 2 featuring three new
works from the roster.
II. Like a Virgin
July 8, 2006 (Saturday) 3 & 8 PM
(previously staged works directed by the Dulaang Sipat
Lawin Ensemble & J. William Herbert Sigmund Go feat.
the Dulaang Sipat Lawin Ensemble)
Dulaang Sipat Lawin’s PRAGRES
A musical adaptation of F. Sionil Joseís story.
Set during Martial Law, a provincial senior clerk is
sent through an arduous affair of going to Manila to
seek the endorsement of her promotion. As she
encounters one bureaucrat after another, she drowns in
incompetence and corruption.
Alfonso Dacanay’s FIRST SNOW OF NOVEMBER
Palanca-winning play based on Bienvenido Santos’
The Day the Dancers Came. A Filipino expat in Chicago
longs for home. When a group of Filipino dancers
arrive for a performance, he is determined to invite
them to a night of bonding and reminiscing. But how
does one win the hearts of complete strangers when he
himself is a stranger in a foreign land?
Rody Vera’s ANG UNANG ASWANG
The legend of the aswang: Ang unang aswang ay
naulilang sanggol na sumuso sa dugo ng bangkay niyang
ina. Ang kaniyang tanod ay ësang pusang itim, ësang
asong may pangil at ësang baboy ramong nagpasuso sa
kanya. Nang ang unang aswang ay magdalaga, sinipingan
siya ng ësang binata, at nang magbunga’y kinain ang
sariling supling. Ang lahat ay tumuro sa kanyang
pagkabata, wala ni isang nagbintang sa binata.
