New Voice Company celebrates 15th year with 'TMV'

MANILA, Philippines - The New Voice Company, known for its provocative and groundbreaking feminist productions such as David Mamet’s Oleanna, Diane Shaffer’s Sacrilege, Caryl Churchill’s Top Girls, and Eve Ensler’s The Vagina Monologues — celebrates its 15th anniversary with an original play called The Male Voice (TMV) written by NVC Associate artistic director Rito Asilo and acclaimed actor Jamie Wilson.

For 15 years, the New Voice Company, and its’ founder Monique Wilson, have always managed to keep its productions exciting, relevant and dynamic by staging shows that are socially provocative and entertaining. TMV will have a limited run on May 22, 23 and 31 at the RCBC Theater at 8 p.m., and will be followed in August with another original play that will feature the rare pairing of two theatrical icons.

Acclaimed actors Tommy Abuel, Michael Williams, Jamie Wilson and Joaqui Valdes, last seen together in NVC’s acclaimed restaging of Stephen Sondheim’s Into The Woods, reunite to breathe life into the play’s dramatic, poignant and sometimes hilarious true-to-life stories, inspired from interviews that examine roots of violence in men, spoken by men — uniquely and revealingly from their perspective. The play is an honest, provoking and moving introspective of the rarely spoken issues of men — and why violence, in many obvious and less obvious forms, has been a part of their lives.

The play is directed by Rito Asilo, and produced by Rossana Abueva and Monique Wilson, NVC executive director and artistic director respectively. 

For tickets, call the New Voice Company at 896-5497 or 896-6695, e-mail nvc@pldtdsl.net, or visit www.newvoicecompany.com