Mga ama, mga anak
MGA AMA, MGA ANAK
By Nick Joaquin
Director: Joel Lamangan
Playwright: Pete Lacaba and Virgilio Almario
Lighting Designer: Monino Duque
Production Designer: Tuxqs Rutaquio
Sound Designer: TJ Ramos
Artistic Director: Nanding Josef
Mga Ama, Mga Anak (Fathers and Sons) is a play in three-acts written by Nick Joaquin in 1976. The original text in English was published in Manila by National Book Store Inc, in 1979. This is based on his short story "Three Generations.”
This Filipino translation of Nick Joaquin's Fathers and Sons dramatizes the conflicts between generations, particularly the father and sons. It tells the conflicts of Zacarias Monzon who used to be powerful in his town. The story revolves from the time he was ill and wheelchair bound, with conflicts in his family still unresolved, until he realizes the cruelty and inadequacies in this family before he dies.
CAST:
ROBERT AREVALO (Zacarias)
SPANKY MANIKAN (Zacarias)
NANDING JOSEF (Celo)
MARCO VIAÑA (Chitong)
CRIS VILLONCO (Bessie/Pokpok)
JACKIELOU BLANCO (Sofia)
CELESTE LEGASPI (Sofia)
PEEWEE O’HARA (Mrs. Paulo)
BANAUE MICLAT (Nena)
MADELEINE NICOLAS (Nena)
And Tanghalang Pilipino ACTORS COMPANY
In 1976, the year Nick Joaquin was declared National Artist for Literature, he rewrote his short story “Three Generations” into a three-act play titled “Fathers and Sons.”
A year later, future National Artist Lino Brocka directed the first staging of the play at the Philippine Educational Theater Association’s Dulaang Raha Sulayman, an open-air theater housed in the ruins of Fort Santiago in Intramuros. It had been translated into “Mga Ama, Mga Anak” by Virgilio Almario, another future National Artist, and Pete Lacaba.
In its various performances, “Mga Ama, Mga Anak” featured the talents of Ruben Rubio, Robert Arevalo, Lloyd Samartino, Boots Anson Roa, Hilda Koronel, Alicia Alonso, Butch Aquino, and Joel Lamangan, among others.
On Feb. 21, 2014, both Arevalo and Lamangan, now
By Nick Joaquin
Director: Joel Lamangan
Playwright: Pete Lacaba and Virgilio Almario
Lighting Designer: Monino Duque
Production Designer: Tuxqs Rutaquio
Sound Designer: TJ Ramos
Artistic Director: Nanding Josef
Mga Ama, Mga Anak (Fathers and Sons) is a play in three-acts written by Nick Joaquin in 1976. The original text in English was published in Manila by National Book Store Inc, in 1979. This is based on his short story "Three Generations.”
This Filipino translation of Nick Joaquin's Fathers and Sons dramatizes the conflicts between generations, particularly the father and sons. It tells the conflicts of Zacarias Monzon who used to be powerful in his town. The story revolves from the time he was ill and wheelchair bound, with conflicts in his family still unresolved, until he realizes the cruelty and inadequacies in this family before he dies.
CAST:
ROBERT AREVALO (Zacarias)
SPANKY MANIKAN (Zacarias)
NANDING JOSEF (Celo)
MARCO VIAÑA (Chitong)
CRIS VILLONCO (Bessie/Pokpok)
JACKIELOU BLANCO (Sofia)
CELESTE LEGASPI (Sofia)
PEEWEE O’HARA (Mrs. Paulo)
BANAUE MICLAT (Nena)
MADELEINE NICOLAS (Nena)
And Tanghalang Pilipino ACTORS COMPANY
In 1976, the year Nick Joaquin was declared National Artist for Literature, he rewrote his short story “Three Generations” into a three-act play titled “Fathers and Sons.”
A year later, future National Artist Lino Brocka directed the first staging of the play at the Philippine Educational Theater Association’s Dulaang Raha Sulayman, an open-air theater housed in the ruins of Fort Santiago in Intramuros. It had been translated into “Mga Ama, Mga Anak” by Virgilio Almario, another future National Artist, and Pete Lacaba.
In its various performances, “Mga Ama, Mga Anak” featured the talents of Ruben Rubio, Robert Arevalo, Lloyd Samartino, Boots Anson Roa, Hilda Koronel, Alicia Alonso, Butch Aquino, and Joel Lamangan, among others.
On Feb. 21, 2014, both Arevalo and Lamangan, now