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dismisses foreign influences, embraces only Filipino culture, and moves people to action. Tiatco rebuts this view. He cites the diversity of Philippine theater, the heterogeneity of Philippine cultural identities, and the problem of privileging one kind of Philippine theater over others. While Tiatco
A Critique on the Asian-ness/Philippine-ness of Philippine Theatre (s), sheds new light on the issue of Filipino postcolonial identity. The fact of being colonized in the past cannot be seen as the reason to perceive the country’s culture a less “Filipino” nowadays.
- Maria Delimata
- 2013
This report documents the activities of the Komedya Fiesta 2008 and discusses how scholars and others have cited komedya as a national theatre for the Philippines, but argues why this form cannot serve as a national theatre because of its Roman Catholic religious orientation.
- Sir Anril Pineda TIATCO
This divide is rooted in the history of Philippine theatre as we know it, a by-product of colonialism, whereby the colonizer and educated elite sought foreign texts and productions, while local playwrights and actors built productions for the local mass audience. [3]
Aug 2, 2019 · The writing of theatre history has been a challenging intellectual commitment in the Philippines. This mode of inquiry and inscription largely manifests more as a strand of general historiography than as a systematized and specialized critical practice in Philippine academe.
The political impetus in theatre began to resurface in the 1960s; in 1966, a move toward national identification was made by performing plays in Tagalog instead of English (Brandon 1993:218).
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This essay details the current status of Asian Theatre and illustrates the presence of Philippine Theatre here in the United Kingdom (UK). It then discusses the challenges and issues involved in staging foreign work in London, before discussing possible solutions to overcome them.
