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Cosmetic enhancements, total makeovers, everything seems to be about
vanity these days. If it makes one feel good, there are no rules
that can ever stop anyone from altering anything from his natural
body. This is the core of the year opener of Philippine Educational
Theater Association (PETA) as the theater company celebrates its
40th season.
Doctor Beau Batoctol, a noted Filipino cosmetic
surgeon opens the world’s first one-stop beauty resort here in the
Philippines, calling it the Skin-Deep Beauty Sanctuary. And for the
resort’s grand opening promo, seven lucky texters will win a
chance to stay at Skin-Deep for a month and avail of all the beauty
treatments, procedures and services it offers, for free!
The Lucky Seven—an obese female call-center
agent, a troubled married couple, a male model wannabe, a flamboyant
florist, an abused housewife burned beyond recognition and the
reigning Miss Artificial Beauty—go through different miracle
procedures hoping to become more aesthetically acceptable to a very
visual populace outside.
Skin-Deep, directed by Nor Domingo with music by
Lucien Letaba and arranged by Melvin Corpin, gathers some of
today’s most admired theater actors—Robert Seña, Isay Alvarez,
May Bayot-de Castro, Bituin Escalante, Melvin Lee, Rem Zamora, Phil
Noble, Gail Guanlao-Billones, Mary Ann Espinosa, Al Gatmaitan, Glecy
Atienza, Diana Malahay, Onyl Torres, Delphine Buencamino, Neomi
Tabanao-Gonzales, Joan Bugcat, Eric de la Cruz and Eric Bisa.
Choreography is by Christine Crame-Santillan, costume design by
Kalila Aguiluz, lighting design by Jonjon Villareal and production
design by Leo Abaya.
Skin-Deep goes onstage at the PETA-Phinma
Theater on all Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays beginning February 1,
2008. The PETA Theater Center is located at #5 Eymard Drive, New
Manila, Quezon City. For inquiries, call 725-6244, 0917-8154567.
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