ATENEO DE MANILA UNIVERSITY
2006 - 2010
Photo Credit: Reamur Adaza David
SHANGHAI THEATRE FESTIVAL
June 2009
"For a week in June 2009, seven Ateneo theater artists and I staged three shows at the Shanghai Theater Academy for the First Asian-Pacific Expo of Theater Schools. Like student groups from 12 countries, we were asked to present two 30-minute scenes, one from Romeo and Juliet and another from The Caucasian Chalk Circle, two classics of Western drama with roots in ancient Chinese tales. We staged both sequences using the igal, a dance tradition of the Sama Badjao in Sulu Province. The Ateneo group was also chosen to mount a full-length production of a play of its choice. We decided on The Death of Memory by Glenn Sevilla Mas, an avant-garde play about four people trapped in a limbo of acidic memories."
- Ricky Abad, Lessons from Shanghai
- Ricky Abad, Lessons from Shanghai
