Philippine Theater

Indigenous Tradition

• Rituals

  • Movement

  • Dances

  • People participate or watch

  • People who wanted to witness the spirits of their tribe

  • ImitatiOn birth, Baptism, circusmcision, courtship wedding, first mens, ec etc

  • Celebration of tribal acts ike fishing, hunting, tribal acts, going to war

• KOMEDYA

  • Play in verse in three or more parts

  • Marches

  • Stylized movemenbts and delivery of moement

  • Choreographed battles

  • Introduced dueing SPanish era

  • Moro-moro

    • Conflict between moors and christian in medieval europe

    • Pagkakaiba at galing at lakas ng mga kristiyano at islam

  • Religious komedya

    • Lives of patron saints

• Sinakulo

  • Buhay at pagkamatay ni jesus

• Sarsuela

  • Love stories

  • Usually like rich and poor love stories - and like sobrang aliw na ali yung mga tao rito

American Tradition

• Bodabil

  • entertainment

  • Variety show

  • Indigenized vaudeville

  • Para siyang eat bulaga and showtime

  • May pa games, singing, dancing, peforming, comedy, dramas etc

• conservatism

  • Western education system

    • Tinuturo sila shakespeare at ginagawang performance

    • English language and English subtitles with plays

Japanese Occupation

• theater scene in Manila was dominated by stage shows

• Bodabil and dramas

  • Songs dances and skits with a more Filipino flavor

• Anit japanese guerilla

  • Pogo and tugo

  • How they mock the Japanese

• Comedic scenes that have sarcasm to mock the Japanese

Post war

• Continuation

  • Anglo-amrican theater

  • Continue the pre-war practice of staging plays in english

  • Bumalik si Shakespeare

  • Nagka greek tragedies

  • Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards (for play writers)

• Changes

  • Social realism in plays

  • Ex. Ang huling el bimbo

  • The world in an apple

  • Bubungang lata

  • Moses, Moses

  • Vida

Marcos Regime

• stage plays denouncing the three root evils of ph society

Post marcs regime

• filipinization

  • Bodabil and other countries but the music and the theme is FIlipino

• Democratization

  • Equal opportunities for support

  • Exposure for artists of all sections and wider access to CCP

• Decentralization

  • Participation of regional artists

  • Di lang mga taga luzon na puede gumamait ng mga buildings and establishments

  • lahat na ng parte ng bansa

Contemporary period

• continuous changes

• Basic expectations for national theater

  • Pagpapakita ng realoded ng buhay pIlipino

  • Expression of Filipino needs and concerns

  • Use of dramatic styles that are rooted in Filipino ethnic and folk tradition

What makes theater important

• Opens opportunity for artists to move into cinema

contemporary period

• continuous changes

• basic expectations of a national theater include interpretation of the realities FIlipinos settle with

• expression of Filipino needs, concerns, and admirations