Teatro Pilipinas

The Tag-ani Performing Arts Society performs in the bounty of the people.

To Tag-ani, every performance is a harvesting of works that inspire, animate and uplift artist and audience.

IN THE LATE 1960s and early 1970s, those who wrote plays for the activist theater groups remained nameless. It was an unwritten rule that took off from the collectivism that pervaded the so-called committed art scene in the Philippines. When martial law was imposed in 1972, the more that these playwrights became nameless. Then, on [...]

THEATER OF POVERTY may well describe the community theater in the Philippines. But in these parts, it is enriched by ATORs  — “artist-teacher-organizer-researchers” – cultural workers all rolled into one. Marili Fernandez-Ilagan is one such, compelled to become one under the circumstances of the theater of poverty in Mindanao where she honed her artistry, theater [...]

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