PETA opens its 45th theater season
MANILA, Philippines - For its 45th theater season, PETA goes back to this founding idea and further interrogates the role of broadcast media in contemporary Philippine society. PETA dedicates an entire year of examining the historical, cultural, and aesthetic relationship between the two media forms and how both have affected and shaped modern-day society and popular culture. The season will illustrate the interrelationship of live performance and the broadcast media.
PETA brings together talents from the Philippine theater, film and television industries in two of its new plays: Bona and D Wonder Twins of Boac.
Bona, a film by National Artist and PETA founding member, Lino Brocka, will be adapted for theater and set in contemporary time, while D Wonder Twins of Boac (a Filipino musical adaptation of William Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night) will be a parody of how the Filipino film industry evolved in the ’60s and ’70s.
Apart from the two new plays, PETA opens its doors to a new generation of filmmakers with a festival “Cinemalaya Retrospective” that features the best short and full-length films produced by Cinemalaya in the past five years.
Rounding up the season’s offerings, PETA’s hit musicals will have a special re-run at the PETA Theater Center this year: William from July 27-29, Batang Rizal from August 3-12 and Mga Kuwento ni Lola Basyang from Oct. 5 to 14 this year. PETA also hosts Agnes Locsin’s choreographed work Puno, Noel Cabangon’s concert “Tuloy ang Byahe,” Vincent De Jesus’ “Himala (The Concert)” and Storybook Theater for Education Project’s (STEP) “Buklat.”
For show buying info, sponsorship and ticket sales, call the PETA Marketing and PR Office at 410-0821, 725-5244, 0917-5765400, e-mail petatheater@gmail.com, or visit www.petatheater.com.
