Announcement from Virgin Labfest
8th Virgin Labfest Schedule - June 27-July 8, 2012
Virgin Labfest is an annual festival that serves as "a venue for playwrights, directors and actors to bring to life untried, untested, unpublished and unstaged plays" held at the Cultural Center of the Philippines.Read about this year's labfest here:
http://theaterbator.blogspot.com/2012/06/virgin-labfest-2012-has-ten-new-plays-4.html.
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(Click on thumbnails of the posters to see bigger image.)
SET A
June 27, 3pm & 8pm / July 7, 3pm / July 8, 8pm
Pagsubli - By Aizel Cabilan; directed by Melvin Lee
An old native man and a soon-to-be-wed lady
from Manila's pagsubli (pagbalik) or "return" to memory lane unfolds
discoveries of each other and of themselves.
A girl, a boy, and his mother. The boy's
mother is dead. The girl may or may not have been involved in the boy's
mother's death.
Students maneuver the digital
divide and how it creates barriers between rich and poor. Or is it all in the
mind?
SET B
June 28, 3pm & 8pm / July 7, 8pm / July 8, 3pm
Hayop - By Mar Anthony dela Cruz, directed by Erik Matti
Milet is being treated for dissociative
identity disorder. She has five alternate personalities and one of them may
have killed her husband.
By Em Mendez
Directed by George de Jesus
A coming-out story of a young boy brought
up in a hyper-machismo family, who, upon discovery of the first signs of
puberty, attempts to shave off the thing he hates most.
A family grapples with truth and memory as a mother's Alzheimers disease puts the family memoir her son has written into question.
SET C
June 29, 3pm & 8pm / July 4, 3pm / July 6 8pm
Alejandro - By Chuckberry Pascual, directed by Roeder Camanag
What happens when a gay man loves a straight man for seven years and has to finally confront the life he's been living?
Kuneho - By Guelan Luarca, directed by Emman dela Cruz
In exchange for P4 million each, five men
are hired by a mysterious employer to transfer a loaded body bag from one room
to another. Then they get locked in.
By Mixkaela Villalon
Directed by Ron Capinding
Teo Mesina wins the P700 million lottery jackpot and disappears but grants an exclusive interview a month later. Teo's friends, relatives, and enemies go after the reporter.
SET D Full-length play
June 30, 3pm & 8pm / July 4, 8pm / July 5, 3pm
By Jose Dennis Teodosio
Directed by Roobak Valle
This autobiographical play chronicles a summer in the life of a ten year old boy as he contemplates becoming a manghihilot just like his grandfather.
SET E Virgin Labfest 7 Revisited
July 1, 3pm & 8pm / July 5, 8pm / July 6 3pm
Kawala By Rae Red, directed by Paolo O'Hara
The intertwined lives of a condominium's
residents affect an important life choice of the building's elevator boy.
Miranda Beloto's obsession with bringing to her
impoverished province the first staging of a full length opera while dealing
with her corrupt, insensitive governor husband and her manipulative mother.
A different side of history is shown through a faction of smart,
art-loving, mild-mannered young men in the Katipunan at the dawn of the
Philippine revolution against Spain.
Staged readings
June 29, 6pm
By Carlo Pacolor Garcia
Strangers in a bar flirt then fight, then flirt then fight again. They meet again ten years later.
July 4, 6pm
Walang Kukurap By Layeta Bucoy
A suspense thriller revealing the shady politics
and unethical business practices so prevalent in the Philippines today.
What do you think of Virgin Labfest? Share your comments.
2 comments :
Is it free? Where's the venue?
Schedules for july 2 and 3?
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