Teatro Pinas Review : Tanghalang Pilipino' Manila Notes

Teatro Pinas Review : Manila Notes, offers a more intimate, realistic and right now happening theater experience. The narrative of its story is the typical crowed or group of people talking at the same place allowing the audience to listen on what they wanted to listen whilst the other group has their own discussion.

The play has been programmed in a way that it will show a more natural and accurate scene inside a specific play. The mastery on how the director, Oriza Hirata would want to depict a more organic and honest environment on stage is one of a kind.

Manila Notes, explores beyond what you usually think of and what you usually see in a stage play giving its audience the awareness that thinks may happen according to how you want it to happen, bending the reality that it is possible to happen. Manila Notes has the great contrast of deep drama and comedic scene. The sensation that it delivers is a bitter-sweet taste of reality and possibilities of life. Life is always a balance between good and bad and it will always depend on the person, on they will perceive the things happening around them.

STORY

The story of Manila Notes takes place in the lobby of an art museum in Manila sometime in the near future. A major war being waged in Europe and many paintings, including those by Vermeer, have been moved to the various cities in Asia. In front of such paintings, family members, friends and lovers continue their fragmentary conversations on taking care of their aging parents, inheritance, future career, and love, among others. With the backdrop of a distant war, the play clearly portrays how Filipino live their every lives, which reveal a whole range of problems and crises of our modern society.

ARTISTIC TEAM

Original Script/ Director: Oriza Hirata
Adaptation: Rody Vera
Set Designer: Itaru Sugiyama
Assistant Director: Hazel Gutierrez
Assistant Playwright: Maynard Manansala
Assistant Set Designer: Chen Yen-Chun
Light Director: Barbie Tan-Tiangco
Costume Designer: James Reyes
Sound Engineer: TJ Ramos
English Subtitles: Aya Nishimoto

MANILA NOTES, A Philippine-Japan theater collaboration based on Oriza Hirata's Tokyo Notes. Directed by Oriza Hirata and adapted by Rody Vera. Staged as Tanghalang Pilipino's 32nd season production, from November 30 to December 16, 2018 at Tanghalang Aurelio Tolentino (CCP Little Theater) Cultural Center of the Philippines.

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