A Theater Summer Festival with the Stagers.
By Evo Joel Contrivida
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| The Cast of "Kutitap". |
PHILIPPINE STAGERS FOUNDATION, (PSF), a
theater group base in Sampaloc, Manila successfully run the 6th
year PSF Theater Festival held
exclusively at the home of Stagers in Balic-Balic where a mini theater
is set up to cater for almost 50 invited guest and friends of Stagers, plus the
chosen three members of the Jury. The
main purpose of the festival is to showcase new talents from this year’s
participants of the workshop, and to rediscover different theater talents of
its Stagers members. It started last
April 13 up to May 10.
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| Atty. Vince Tanada. |
According to Vince Tanada, a lawyer in profession and the founding
member of PSF, they have 100 participants mostly students from different
Universities and campuses in the Country , and some professionals of different
fields, they were selected out of 700 who audition for this year’s Summer
Theater Workshop that caters to Acting, Scriptwriting, Stage Management and
Directing play. Vince point out that
this is for free, no fees collected to the participants and they are doing this
ever since as a way of thanking those who support PSF throughout.
PSF is doing school base and commercial play of different genre and
themes not only in Manila but throughout the Country; they are totaling 450
stage plays for a year mostly. Among
their past productions are Bonifacio: Isang Sarswela, Cory ng EDSA, and many
more.
This 2014, PSF is premiering the Pilipinas: 1941, a play of love about the
Bataan Death March, written and to be directed of course by Tanada.
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| "Walang Pinag-Iba" |
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| Cast of "Sa Carwash". |
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| "Babae Po Ako" Cast. |
At the Festival, around eight short plays compete for this year’s honor
roll, delivered and executed on stage by Stagers members. Watching the three
weeks show was truly a blast, Stagers themselves really stunned us in terms of
acting and directing, their ability to cry, shout and deliver punchlines on
stage is far out from other theater group I’ve known so far, from creative
lighting to props and stage design is well applauded by majority of us in the
audience. Tanada’s ability in creating
and transforming his Stagers into a well craft artist is a success; they could
even surpass those Artists in the mainstream Television and Cinema.
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| Cast of "Dilaw o Pula". |
Knowing Tanada deeper throughout the Festival is getting to know his
passion for the arts as well, even though he is a practicing lawyer he never
give up his love for theater, PSF strong foundation for the past 13 years is
truly a success and an envy to others especially his marketing arm. Tanada who
mostly write and direct plays for PSF is a Palanca awardee and a Aliw Awardee
for acting.
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