(With the goal of getting more of our The Manila Times College students writing about local culture, here’s a review of Kanakan-Balintagos’s Mga Buhay Na Apoy, edited and trimmed down for publication. I take as much responsibility as an editor [and teacher] should for agreeing to publish any review, but all credit goes to the writer of this piece, Gian Baltazar Franco)

Mga Buhay na Apoy is a timely discussion of our country’s misfortunes in this time of decay of family relations, national pride, morality, ethics, and conscience. Director and playwright Kanakan-Balintagos (formerly Aureos Solito) calls it activist theater. The play was a work he had lost and found in 2014. It would win first prize in the Carlos Palanca Awards in 2015. It speaks of his love and pride for his lineage of Shaman-Kings from the indigenous Palawan of South Palawan.

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