Event:

Katotohanan Katarungan Kapatiran

June 27 (F) – 3PM/8PM
July 2 (W) – 3PM
July 6 (SUN) – 8PM


F. Sionil Jose's Dong-Ao
Translated Rody Vera
Directed by Chris Millado
Featuring Jonee Gamboa, Carme Sanchez, Nanding Josef, Tommy
Abuel, Bembol Roco, Gigi Escalante and Monica Llamas

Dong-ao is a traditional Ilokano funeral ceremony where relatives and friends pay tribute to the deceased. In this short play, Pepe Samson, the lead character in F. Sionil Jose’s novel Mass is dead. Several characters speak in front of his coffin, before he is laid to rest: Senator Reyes, Pepe’s Aunt Bettina, his college professor-mentor Badong Hortenso, his parish priest friend Father Jess, Colonel White Sidewall, and an old woman Tia Nena who served in the parish where Pepe once stayed. The divergent views uttered by the characters depict a fragmented nation, teetering between complete collapse and newfound hope and direction.


Allan Lopez’s Masaganang Ekonomiya
Directed by J. Victor Villareal
Featuring Katherine Sabate and Abner Delina

Framed by an unfinished game of chess between Vera, a highly decorated military officer, and Guzman, an esteemed activist, the play unfolds as an interrogation of Gomez, a younger militant.   In layered scenes that shift from intense examinations to harrowing scenes of humor, budding fascism, and brutish attacks on human sensibility, ‘Masaganang Ekonomiya’ offers an emasculated contemporary look on the age-old conflict between the establishment and the insurgents, in the context of a globalization-obsessed nation.


Tim Dacanay‘s Pamantasang Hirang
Directed by Hazel Gutierez
Featuring Christian Bautista, Nicco Manalo, Jonathan Tadioan,
Alex Dorola, Bong Cabrera and Russel Legaspi

The play takes a different view of the University of the Philippines as a microcosm of Philippine society and politics. Dan, a fraternity quitter, comes back full circle when he meets Chok, the guy who led him through initiation rites and is now a corrupt congressman. Fraternity membership, being the prestigious symbol of status and glory, also becomes the key to integration in a society that operates only using the language of power and corruption.

Schedule:
June 27 (F) – 3PM/8PM
July 2 (W) – 3PM
July 6 (SUN) – 8PM

Location:

The CCP
Tanghalang Huseng Batute

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