Critique Paper

Lapu-Lapu

Submitted by:

BANGUIS, ARABEL D.

Grade 12- St. John Paul II

“LAPU-LAPU”
 The Lapu-Lapu is a set design for musical by Salvador F. Bernal in
Philippines, 1997. This type of stage design was one of Bernal’s greatest
work. The design was look simple yet unique and amazing. The background
is completed with an aesthetic design of slightly big round object and the top
of it is a wooden look like a reverse alibata script. The stage is set mainly of
a three huge curved like waves. The mood and visual effect that this scene
portrays warm mood that can be considered as strong, bravery and war.

I believed that Bernal wanted the audience to feel the mood of the
scene. It explains that Lapu-Lapu was a colonizer, who traveled to our land
by means of ships. Therefore, the whole stage was transformed into wooden
slats shaped into waves. The wooden slats formed the platform for the
actors. Bernal evoked these bodies of water using three huge waves
undulating across the stage.

In the final analysis, the whole stage worked so good, cohesive and
arresting. This is due to the captivating color that Bernal used and the
shapes of object in the stage. The stage relates the scene of Lapu-Lapu and
so far everything was good and amazing.
 AUTOBIOGRAPHY

Salvador F. Bernal who was conferred the National Artist Award for
Threater Design in 2003, produced a brilliant body of work which has
enriched Philippine theater, music, and dance. He was born on January 7,
1945 in Dagupan City and earned a Philosophy degree in 1966 from the
Ateneo de Manila where he would later teach literature and stage design.

Starting in 1969, Bernal designed more than 300 productions for

drama, musicals, operas and concerts. He was known for using indigenous
and locally available materials for his stage designs, such as bamboo, abaca
fabric, twice-raw hemp and rattan chain links.
 Critique Paper

Lapu-Lapu

Submitted by:

BANGUIS, ARABEL D.

Grade 12- St. John Paul II