20th and 21st Century

Multimedia Forms
 Two musical cultures prevail in the
Philippines

• Western Music

• Southeast Asian
 OPERA
• Opera is made up of vocal pieces
with instrumental accompaniments
and usually with orchestral
overtunes and interludes
• OPERA IN MUSICA = “work in music”
 LA LOBA NEGRA

• The assassination of Governor

General Bustamante by Felix Hidalgo
• The Black She-Wolf
• Was a woman who was murdering
friars in the dead of the night
 NOLI ME TANGERE

• Opera by FELIPE PADILLA

• Libretto by GUILLERMO TOLENTINO
• JOSE RIZAL
• Crisostomo Ibarra
 EL FILIBUSTERISMO

Don Simoun
 BALLET
• Ballet, theatrical dance that
originated in italian courts
• Combined with other artistic
elements such as costume, music
and stage scenery
 LOLA BASYANG

Severino Reyes
-Ang palasyo ng mga duwende
-Labindalawang masasayang Prinsesa
-Anting-Anting
 RAMA HARI

• Based on Ramayana
• Alice Reyes and Ryan Cayabyab
 MUSICAL PLAY
• Also called Musical Comedy
• Offering Music, Dancing and dialogue
 ANDRES BONIFACIO

• Philippine Stagers Foundation (PSF)

• Written And directed by Vincent
Tanada
• In commemoration of the 150th birth
anniversary of Andres Bonifacio
 ATANG

• Dulaang UP with music by Floy

Quintos
• 1987
 KATY

• Katy de la Cruz
• Produced by Celeste Legaspi and GR
Rodis
• Ryan Cayabyab and Jose Javier Reyes
 FLORANTE AT LAURA

• Gantimpala Theater
• Francisco Balagtas
 DARAGANG MAGAYON

• Virgilio Almario
• Ramon Santos
 MAGSIMULA KA!

• Nestor Torre and Gines Tan

• Ryan Cayabyab
• CCP
• “the first Filipino musical that works”
• “the longest running Filipino
musical”
Original Performances
with
the use of Media
PHILIPPINE THEATER
GROUPS
 PETA

• Philippine Educational Theater

Association
• Founded in 1967 by Cecile-Guidote
Alvarez
• Development
and social change
 PETA

• Initially took residence in Dulaang

Rajah Sulayman
• PETA moved to its new home at the
PETA Theater Center in 2005
 REPERTORY
• Zenaida Amador
• To make theater going a social habit
in the Philippines and to build a
theater industry that would enable
talented Filipinos to work at what
they love
 TRUMPETS
• Triumphant People’s Evangelistic
Theater Society
• Asia’s first Professional gospel
Theater group
• Trumpets Playshop
 NVC
• New Voice Company
• Monique Wilson – 1994
• One of the Philippine premiere
theater companies
• To produce theater that educates,
enlightens, inspires, and informs to action
– theater that awakens
 ROLES IN A
PRODUCTION
 DIRECTOR
-Is an instructor who orchestrates and
oversees the mounting of a production
-ensure the completeness and quality of a
production
 ACTOR
-actors need to learn the stage directions
that appear in the script
-stage left, stage right, upstage and
downstage
 CHOREOGRAPHER
-one who designs the sequences of
movements of physical bodies
 STAGE MANAGER
-has overall responsibility for stage
management and the smooth execution of
a production
 LIGHT MANAGER
-creates the atmosphere, lighting, and
time of the day for a production
 SET DESIGNER
-establishes an overall visual concept for
the production