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Monday, July 07, 2008 |
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Maiden coming of age |
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The Virgin Labfest blooms with veterans making their
first foray
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Four years ago, the Cultural Center of the
Philippines, the National Commission for Culture and the Arts and
Tanghalang Pilipino came together to provide a test bed for untried,
untested, unpublished and yet-to-be-staged plays.
This tryst with strangers by these formidable
art institutions has since birthed some of the most promising
playwrights, actors and directors of today. This year, in
collaboration with Writer’s Bloc, Japan Foundation and Mae Paner,
Virgin Labfest breaks new ground once more.
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O T H E R R E P O R T S
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THEATER REVIEW
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Layeta Bucoy and Rogelio Braga
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Two promising playwrights
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There are two promising plays opened at the Tanghalang Huseng Batute,
Cultural Center of the Philippines for the fourth installment of a
laboratory festival for playwrights popularly known as Virgin
Labfest 4: Layeta Bucoy’s Las Mentiras de Gloria (The Lies of
Gloria), directed by Tuxqs Rutaquio...
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Karylle become Maria
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West Side Story come to our neighborhood
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West Side Story—the timeless musical featuring music by Leonard
Bernstein and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and made famously into a
classic award-winning film starring Natalie Wood—now comes to
Manila.
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The modern masters mix it up
with today’s young hotshots
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See works by revered artists such as HR Ocampo, Arturo Luz, Juvenal
Sanso, Ramon Orlina and Federico Aguilar Alcuaz stand side by side
with today’s promising hot painters who now command prestige and
high prices at international auction houses.
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Art for another’s sake
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From gallery to medicine, a free exhibit for a cause
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Long before digital cameras were born, painters
were around to capture life’s best episodes on canvas.
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PEOPLE
By Bob Garon
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Optimism
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It takes all kinds of people to make our world. There are the
optimists among us who somehow always find a way to see something
good in even the ugliest happening.
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