Dec 29, 20182 minStaging the Materiality of Art Production by Roma Estrada ▶︎ Coinciding with the Don Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards Night on the 5th of October was "Table and Two Chairs" by...
Nov 21, 20185 minLove, Nation, Creativity: On "Mula Sa Buwan"by Katrina Stuart Santiago ▶︎ My bias against foreign theater works staged in the local has grown through the years. The possibilities...
Nov 7, 20183 min Remarks on the Nora Initiativeby Patrick D. Flores ▶︎ We are gathered here today to defend the process through which the nomination of Nora Aunor was secured. Such a...
Oct 28, 20183 minStatement on the 2014 Order of National Artistsfrom the Film Desk of the Young Critics Circle ▶︎ The Film Desk of the Young Critics Circle (YCC) condemns the exclusion of Nora Aunor...
Oct 25, 20182 minNora Aunor: Hindi Maaaring HindianJ Pilapil Jacobo ▶︎ Wala nang ibang gawad ang maaaring ialay kay Nora Aunor—siya na dinalamhati ang pinakamasasalimuot na sugat ng bayan...
Oct 23, 20183 minMay Tali Sa Talik: Ang Wika Ng Sex At Nasani Jerry Gracio ▶︎ Si Mesándel Virtusio Arguelles ang isa sa pinaka-prolipiko at marahil, ang pinakapangahas nating makata. Mula sa mga...
Oct 17, 20184 minHow FDCP is complicit in killing indie films like "Liway"by Katrina Stuart Santiago ▶︎ It's not a question of which comes first, a good independent film that gets a commercial release, or the...
Oct 11, 20181 minAfter Banksyby Pilipinas Street Plan ▶︎ Pilipinas Street Plan is a street art collective. Reposting this from their Facebook Page with permission.
Oct 10, 20183 minNotes on "Talik"by Erika M. Carreon ▶︎ In Talik, the body becomes introspection. There is a certain evasiveness when dealing with sex in poetry, a split...
Sep 22, 20185 minEmerging in a New Clime: On "M. Butterfly" (2018)by Jaime Oscar M. Salazar ▶︎ M. Butterfly, penned by the American dramatist David Henry Hwang, was first staged in the Philippines in...
Sep 5, 20184 minIndecision, indigestion: “Ang Huling El Bimbo” fails us (second of three parts)by Katrina Stuart Santiago ▶︎ Here’s the thing with using existing music, with its own history, its specific historical milieu, its own...