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Monday, February 04, 2008

 

Hamlet 2008: Stripping Shakespeare’s
most celebrated work

Making her directorial debut, theater actor Ana Abad Santos-Bitong has created a bold new version of Hamlet that strips all the frills normally associated with a typical Shakespeare production—the flowery costumes, the lavish sets, the British accents—leaving nothing but the raw, brutal story of murder and love and treachery and revenge that is Shakespeare’s most famous work.

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O T H E R   R E P O R T S

 

Long before he became one of the Philippines’ most acclaimed painters, Malang enjoyed an interesting “past life” as a cartoonist. From the 1940s to the 1960s, he created cartoon characters and comic strips that were widely followed in such publications as the Chronicle, This Week magazine and the Weekly Graphic.

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GIVE it to Bacolod City, the City of Smiles, which has created that splendid and imaginative festival Masskara, to come up with yet another unique and colorful street pageantry to celebrate the Chinese New Year—the BacoLaodiat.

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CALIFORNIA DREAMING
By Carmen C. Hernandez

San Francisco, CA: Californians are so fortunate to live in this sunny state (although that is not always the case), especially this part of the region. True, the Bay Area is currently being soaked by surprising rainfall, which actually is a blessing, alleviating our drought situation.

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PEOPLE
By Bob Garon

Life is not just a series of ups and downs, it is a never-ending series of ups and down. Since none of us enjoys the downs, we like to think that we can somehow avoid them. We build up all sorts of expectations that we will be different somehow from the rest of humanity. I know this sounds crazy, but it’s true.

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