Last February, enthusiastic ex-members of the Tanghalang Pilipino Actors Company banded together to stage a performance in what they have come to call a found space. They called the new troupe Kolaborador Co., or Kolab for short. They chose as performance space a huge lot that bore the remnants of a restaurant later repurposed as...
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Dulaang UP’s ‘Ang Kaliitan ng Kasalukuyan’ finds the self we were told to forget
There’s a particular Filipino habit of dressing up sacrifice as virtue. For instance, we call our overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) “bagong bayani,” or modern-day heroes, and mean it sincerely, but the term also makes their leaving feel inevitable—noble, even—rather than the product of a system that has failed to give them any other option. The...