After a successful
run of the 110-year-old sarswela of Severino Reyes’ ‘Walang
Sugat’, Tanghalang Pilipino (TP), Cultural Center of the
Philippines’ (CCP) resident theater company presents a highly-controversial
play ‘Walang Kukurap’, written by Ms. Layeta Bucoy, considered by many as
Quentin Tarantino’s female in theaters. Ms. Layeta Bucoy’s play is set to open
on September 14 at CCP’s Tanghalang Huseng Batute.
In an interview with the playwright Layeta Bucoy, she
mentioned that she got inspired by a political blogger named Christopher Bonoan
that brought her attention to the Article 11 Section 1 of the 1987 Philippine
Constitution, which states that public office is a public trust. Public
officers and employees must, at all times, be accountable to the people, serve
them with utmost responsibility, integrity, loyalty, and efficiency; act with
patriotism and justice, and lead modest lives.
Bucoy stressed: “The questions that lingered in my mind: But
what if the public office is taken as the extension of one's private or
personal interests or what if the public office is perceived as the means to
further such interests? What if public trust is ignored for the public office
is treated as a private trust fund?”
The play is highly political in nature that explores the
darkest Filipino soul. ‘Walang Kukurap’ as a production will serve as a forceful
reminder that if people do not take the responsibility to better this world,
then there is no need to die just to experience hell.
The same team that brought Dulaang UP’s shocking adaptation
of William Shakespeare’s ‘Titus Andronicus’ is the artistic collaboration
between the director-playwright tandem of Tuxqs Rutaquio and Layeta Bucoy
together with TP’s homegrown talents—the Actors Company led by Jonathan
Tadioan, Marco Viaña, Regina De Vera, Nicolo Magno, Ralph Mateo, Remus
Villanueva, Doray Dayao, April Joy Iñigo, and Jovanni Cadag.
It will also feature veteran and competent theater actors
who have crossed over to the mainstream arts, like Suzette Ranillo, Sherry
Lara, Mymy Davao, Crispin Pineda, Pewee O’Hara, Lou Veloso, Ding Navasero, Nar
Cabico, and Delphine Buencamino.
With
the TP Actors Company:
JONATHAN
TADIOAN
MARCO
VIANA
REGINA
DE VERA
NICOLO
MAGNO
RALPH
MATEO
REMUS
VILLANUEVA
DORAY
DAYAO
APRIL
JOY INIGO
JOVANNI
CADAG
Another highlight of this second offering is the featuring of GLOC 9 on special dates of its run.
For more details of
the play please visit, Tanghalang Pilipino’s official website on
tanghalangpilipino.org.ph
or contact TP office at (632)
832-1125
locals 1620/1621
or +639177500107
or call TicketWorld
at (632)
891-999. The show will run until
October 7.
