Contemporary

Theater
of the

Philippines

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Theatre or theater
•is a collaborative form of fine art that
uses live performers, typically actors
or actresses, to present the experience
of a real or imagined event before a
live audience in a specific place, often
a stage.
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Theatre Arts
•The main events of a play, novel,
movie, or similar work, devised and
presented by the writer as an
interrelated sequence.

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1. Plot
•The elements of
dramatic theatrical
performance

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2. Character
•a person in a
novel, play, or
movie.

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3. Thought
- the action or process
of thinking

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4. Language and Diction
• Diction – its original, primary meaning, refers
to the writer’s or the speaker’s distinctive
vocabulary choices and style of expression in
a poem or story.
• Language – a body of word and the systems
of their use common to a people who are of
the same community or nation, the same
geographical.
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5.Song or Music
–refers to the speaking
,dancing and singing
part in the
performance.

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6.Spectacle
• an event or scene regarded in terms of its
visual impact.

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7. Director
• A person who supervises the actors, camera crew,
and other staff for a movie, play, television
program, or similar production

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8.Playwright
• A playwright, also
known as a
dramatist, is a
person who writes
plays

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9.Theater Space
• (with a focus on Proscenium,Thrust Stage, Theatre in
the Round, Black Box Theater)

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The 4 basic Theatre
stages
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1. Proscenium
• -The Proscenium Arch was the
most common form of theatre
building in the 18th, 19th and
20th centuries. The “Arch”•acts
like a picture frame through
which the action can be seen.
The picture above shows the
Proscenium Arch of the York
Theatre Royal in the UK.
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2. Arena or circle stage
• In theatre and
performing arts, the stage
is a designated space for
the performance of ... In
theatre in the round, the
audience is located on
all four sides of the
stage.
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3.Thrust Stage
•a stage that extends
into the auditorium so
that the audience is
seated around three
sides.

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4. Created and Found
- A stage can also be improvised where
ever a suitable space can be found.
Examples may include staging a
performance in a non traditional space
such as a basement of a building, a
side of a hill or, in the case of a
busking troupe, the street. In a similar
manner, a makeshift stage can be
created by modifying an environment.
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Style in Philippine
Theatre Arts

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Theater
•as the performing art that consists of
acting in front of an audience, uses a
combination of gesture, music,dance, sound,
speech ,or a narrative .Theater takes many
forms ,such as plays, musical,opera,
ballet or a combination of contemporary
forms.
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According to Nicanor Tiangson
• Most of the Original plays of
today were written for literary
contests or evolved through
workshops or created for semi-
professional companies
,student drama organizations
and numerous community
theatre groups all over the
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Outstanding directors who
have contributed to the
development of Modern
Philippine Theater
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Lamberto Avellana y Vera
• Born in Bontoc in the Mountain
Province on 12 February 1915. he
studied at Ateneo de Manila,
where he learned about his
passion and talent for the
theater arts. He became a
teacher at Ateneo, and aspired
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• - He met Daisy Hontiveros who acted in plays
staged by the University of the Philippines.
Hontiveros and Avellana formed a theater
arts group called the Barangay Theater Guild,
which has had members such as Leon
• Lamberto Avellana y Vera was born in Bontoc
in the Mountain Province on 12 February 1915.
He studied at Ateneo de Manila, where he
learned about his passion and talent for the
theater arts. He became a teacher at Ateneo,
and aspired to promote Filipino theater.
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Founder of Repertory
Philippines

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Zenaida Amador
• THE “MOTHER” of the country’s
oldest theater group, Repertory
Philippines, Zenaida “Bibot” Amador
left behind a legacy of theater
excellence and a “brood” of world-
class stage artists when she died of
lung cancer last Nov. 28.

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• Amador formed Repertory Philippines
Foundation Inc. as president and artistic
director in 1967, training theater hopefuls
including Lea Salonga and Monique Wilson

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Antonio Mabesa
• Last September, Professor Emeritus
Antonio “Tony” Mabesa received this
year’s Gawad CCP Para sa Sining, the
highest award given by the Cultural
Center of the Philippines (CCP) every
three years. This recent achievement,
though, is just one of Prof. Mabesa’s
many accomplishments in a career that
spans more than six productive
decades.
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• Prof. Mabesa is best known for his works in the
theater and is widely considered one of the country’s
finest directors, having directed some 170
productions. He is also a prolific actor, having acted
in countless plays, films, and TV shows.

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Behn Cervantes
• He was also acclaimed for directing the
landmark political film “Sakada”.
• From the 1970s through the late 1980s,
the mercurial Cervantes staged
numerous political plays with the
student actors of UP Repertory.

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• A renowned activist who was jailed during
Martial Law alongside his friend, the late
National Artist for Film Lino Brocka,
Cervantes was a leading figure in Philippine
theater, both as director and actor.
• Theater and film director and activist
Benjamin “Behn” Cevantes

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Lutgardo Labad

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• It was at PETA where I met Lino (Brocka) who was then
our publicity officer. He wanted me to compose music for
his movies. I would say that it was in Tinimbang where I
got my first big break. It was his first produced film and
almost all of PETA got involved. It was a very exciting
time for me.

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Cecile (Guidote) Alvarez
• (born November 13, 1943) founded
the Philippine Educational Theater
Association (PETA), a pioneering
theater group that honed creative
artists and audiences through
children’s, college, and community
theater. She was recognized as
National Artist for
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Soxy Topacio
• Soxy has been also a Resident Artist of PETA
since 1969, a Program director of Kalinangan
Ensemble from 1982- 1986, PETA Executive
Director from 1986- 1994, a member of the
Board of Trustees from 1995 to present, a
member of Afredo Salanga Foundation Board
of Trustees from 1990-1992, a member of the
PETA Artistic Com from 2004-2006 and a
membership committee from 2005 to present.

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• In 2013, Lamangan was named as the
artistic director of Gantimpala Theater
Foundation. Lamangan will direct an
original musical titled "Katipunan:
Mga Anak ng Bayan" and it will star
actors Sandino Martin and Anna Fegi.
The show toured in August and
September of 2013 around provinces of
Manila to celebrate the 150th
anniversary of the birth of Philippine
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Baby Barredo
• Ms Baby Barredo, one of the founders of
Repertory Philippines, is better known in the
theater community as “Tita Baby”. Being
almost everyone’s “tita” really made this
community one big happy family. And just
like how in any family, the children grow
up and start putting up their own families,
most of the new theater companies that get
built up are mostly alumni of Repertory
Philippines
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Joonee Gamboa

• Filipino actor and voice actor.

As veteran actor, he appeared
in more than 145 movies and
television shows.

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Realism
• The Filipino Playwrights adopted realism as a
style in theater arts. Realism in the
contemporary modern theater follows two
tendencies: the psychological ,which focuses
on the problems of individuals and the social,
which situates and roots individual problems
within the larger framework of a class society.

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Psychological
Realism
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Wilfrido Maria Guerrero
• Outstanding psychological studies of character
are found in some English plays
• Filipino playwright, director, teacher and theater
artist. Guerrero wrote well over 100 plays, 41 of
which have been published. His unpublished
plays have either been broadcast over the radio or
staged in various parts of the Philippines
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•Nick Joaquin
•Orlando Nadres
•Bienvenido Noriega Jr.
•Tony Perez
•Bobby Flores Villasis
• Demigod
•Elsa Victoria Martinez Coscoluela
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 Social Realism
• Social Realism is a naturalistic realism
focusing specifically on social issues and the
hardships of everyday life. The term usually
refers to the urban American Scene artists of
the Depression era, who were greatly
influenced by the Ashcan School of early 20th
century New York.
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•Alberto Florentino
•Reuel Molina Aguila
•Paul Dumol
•Chris Millado

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Musical Performances

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Dumaguete Plays
• -Talaan sa Kinabuhi 2017

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Dance Drama

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YATTA -DUMAGUETE

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Thanks

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