"Kawil" seems to have a life of its own. Pia, a good friend from college, saw a write up for it here (right sidebar): http://www.panitikan.com.ph/ so I immediately investigated. I thought it was about the DLSU staging but was pleasantly surprised that it's actually a different event.
For the lazy:
DLSU PISTANG PANITIK EVENTS
The Bienvenido N. Santos Creative
Writing Center
De La Salle University-Manila
presents
From Page to Stage
featuring
HARLEQUIN THEATER GUILD
&
MALATE LITERARY FOLIO
in
KAWIL
by Joni Cham
Director: Alison Segarra
&
KUWENTONG BUTSERO
by Johannes Chua
Director: Joshua Lloyd So
Writers Guild and Literature Circle
will also perform some poetry readings
Sunday, 03 September 2006, 2:30 –
4:00 p.m.
The 27th Manila International Book
Fair
World Trade Center Manila, Pasay City
While I am truly grateful to the people at Harlequin for resurrecting my short story from the pages of Malate where I'm sure it was buried, forgotten and well, almost dying, I would have loved to hear from them about things like these, instead of finding out from secondary sources. Well, first I'm happy for myself as you all know how this feeds my narcissistic tendencies. But I'm happy for them too and I thought hey, we could be happy together! Why why why am I once again not informed about this?
Anyway, if you're not too busy on Sunday, you might want to pass by the bookfair and watch. Okay, I'm almost down on my knees here. Go watch! Please? I would really, really appreciate it if you do. And I'd appreciate it even more if you write a review.
For pictures and discussions on its DLSU staging, click here: http://thejonastory.multiply.com/photos/album/21
You may also read a little about it here: http://sanapakaininmoko.multiply.com/journal/item/83
and here: http://sanapakaininmoko.multiply.com/journal/item/96
I finally got an apologetic message from a Harlequin representative this morning. It turns out that HTG had an agreement with Malate that it would be Malate's responsibility to seek for my consent as well as to inform me about the event(s). As I'm quick to forgive, I only asked for one lunch when I go home. Whee! I'll have one free lunch!
ReplyDeleteYou can view some of the pictures from the production manager's site here: http://martinkulot.multiply.com/photos/album/40
So far, friends who have texted and sent emails all have good things to say about either the DLSU or Bookfair staging (depending on which they saw). Those who didn't like it have yet to speak up but I would also love to hear from them. But just you wait till I get home, you... you... unappreciative monkeys. Seriously, you may say so if you didn't like it and why. Of course I would love you more if you did like it. Ok, I'll stop rambling now. It's just that I'm so happy with all the glowing 2-line reviews sent via text messages. :p
More pictures of the Bookfair here: http://www.drag-on-fly.blogspot.com/
ReplyDeleteNo pictures of "Kawil" though you might want to take a peek at some of the famous writers in the country.
All the googling paid off. I finally found a review, albeit really short, of "Kawil" and the other plays. Here's an excerpt:
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I've read the short story one day at the office. I've also looked up in the dictionary of what kawil means (it's fish line). The story was ok, but I got a bit unsettled with it being a vicious cycle of 4 generations of women who can't show emotion. I wished I could see a resolution. But in the play, I liked the way the story was told. It helped that the actors there are really good. No, they're not good, they're excellent. Especially the girl who won Best Actress. Damn, she was so good! I suddenly wished she was one of our talents in our thesis hahaha. This play was drama at its best. And it's drama, not melodrama. The girl who played the mother was really good too. The end was nice. I can't stress enough how important the ending is in a play or any work that needs an end. The last line was crucial and it was delivered perfectly. The only weakness of this play was it was still a bit too talky for me, especially the chorus hehe. Nevertheless, with that kind of acting, all that talking was easily overlooked.
Awarding Ceremony
Had no idea there is going to be an awarding but that's why the event was so long. Anyway, the judges include the Dean of Student Affairs, Ms. Fritzie (the SPO Director), Tita Swarding (!), an alumni of Harlequin and a senior PETA member that I forgot the name but he looks familiar.
All the minor awards (Best Lighting, Music Design, Adaptation etc.) went to Kawil. The director of Eyeball won Best Director for Ten Minute Play (she looks familiar, I think she's from MC though I'm not entirely sure. hehe). Best Director for Short Story Adaptation was Alison Segarra, the director of Kawil, as expected.
There were other awards like Best Actor and Actress, Supporting Actor and Actress, Best Production and even Most Supporting Parent. hahaha.
It was the best performance that I've seen in HTG. And I'm not saying that because they used Malate works (though that helped haha). It was excellent and really nice. I hope next year they'll do this again. wheee :D
For the complete article, click here: http://boranzohn.livejournal.com/