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Moro-moro, also called comedia, the earliest known form of organized theater in the Philippines; it was created by Spanish priests. It began with a 1637 play that dramatized the recent capture by a Christian Filipino army of an Islamic stronghold.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Jul 18, 2020 · A 19th century print depicting a scene from a “Moro-Moro,” an anti-Muslim play popular during the Spanish colonial period to mark Spanish victory over the Muslims in the Philippines and to assert the supremacy of Christianity over Islam.
Moro-moro plays serve as a narrative tool that highlights the historical conflicts between Christians and Muslims during the Spanish colonial period. By dramatizing these battles, they reflect not only the religious tensions of that time but also the cultural dynamics between different groups.
The Moro-Moro is a form of theater premised on battles between Christians and Moors performed in village fiestas in the Philippines from the Spanish colonial period to the present. This study analyzes the changes in form and substance of the Moro-Moro as it is uprooted from the village setting and taken to new audiences in the present.
- NIKKI SERRANILLA BRIONES
- 8-Mar-2010
Dec 14, 2009 · Moro-moro is a play that became popular in the Philippines during the Spanish colonial period where the Moros were portrayed as perpetual villains who always lost to Christians in the end.
The Moro people or Bangsamoro people are the 13 Muslim-majority ethnolinguistic Austronesian groups of Mindanao, Sulu, and Palawan, native to the region known as the Bangsamoro (lit. Moro nation or Moro country). [6]
Jul 20, 2020 · The climax is the moro-moro, a war dance, usually in the tune of March music and accompanied by the community brass band. The moro-moro was later called the batalla , a closer jargon to the actual scene on stage: the battle between the Christian and the Muslim troupes.
