FREE Virgin Labfest 4 Stage Reading of Kung Paano Maghiwalay

From CCP to Starbucks The partial Kung Paano Maghiwalay cast was moved from the original rehearsal venue of the Silangan Room at the CCP to the Starbucks Harbour Square Mall, where early morning patrons on the Sunday of 15 June 2008 were treated to a hushed down reading of the play.

Well, not totally hushed down really. As expected, there are emotional lines in the script, and as some actors got swept into their roles they couldn’t help their voices from rising a little bit.

The Birth of Kung Paano Maghiwalay Director and scriptwriter George de Jesus related that the play was born from a conversation over drinks between him and Weng Lopez when they were talking about break ups and how it was done by people they knew.

Kung Paano Maghiwalay is a creative narrative that follows the rhythm of the five stages of death— denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance.

The Lightness of Laughter George de Jesus III is a writer extraordinaire who is a 5-time Palanca and Centennial Literary Prize winner, so the pathos of the subject has been lightened considerably to the point of laughter, as evidenced by the reading, where the actors couldn’t help giggling and chortling because of the lines.

FREE Virgin Labfest 4 Stage Reading of Kung Paano Maghiwalay The stage reading of Kung Paano Maghiwalay on 27 June 2008, Friday, 6.30pm at the Bulwagang Amado V. Hernandez (CCP Conference Room) is for FREE. To see the full cast, please visit Alvin Trono’s blog.

Kung Paano Maghiwalay is part of Virgin Labfest 4, a venue for “untried, untested, unpublished and unstaged one-act plays.”

There will be a number of one-act plays being staged at the CCP from 25 June to 06 July 2008. After watching Kung Paano Maghiwalay at 6.30pm on 27 June 2008, you can catch the trilogy of Katotohanan, Katarungan, Kapatiran at 8pm (there will be a minimal fee of Php 200/ticket).

Katotohanan, Katarungan, Kapatiran
Dong-Ao by F. Sionil Jose
Masagang Ekonomiya by Allan Lopez
Pamantasang Hirang by Tim Dacanay

For a list of the other plays, please visit Gibbs Cadiz’s blog. Labfest 4 tickets are available at Ticketworld. Please call 891.9999.

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