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IN AN OCEAN OF
EMOTIONS:

Philippine Drama

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PHILIPPINE THEATER
► started with pre-colonial
indigenous drama

► includes rituals, verbal jousts or

games, and songs and dances
praising their respective gods.
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► predramatic forms (for declamations
and orations; done during the arrival
or installation of a holy relic):

 loas
 declamaciones
 oraciones
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PHILIPPINE THEATER
► changed mainly into two categories:
 Komedya or comedy
 Sarsuela or zarzuela

 *Both were used to capture the

imaginations and hearts of the Filipinos
and to serve as teaching tools for their
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► KOMEDYA or COMEDY
 was developed into different kinds:
 Moro-moro: depicts the lives, loves and
wars of Moors and Christians
 Indigenized comedies by FIlipinos
a. Comedia de capa y espada: secular
comedy
b. Comedia de santo: religious comedy 5
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► ZARZUELA
 musical in nature; both spoken and sung
 Jugar Con Fuego (Play with Fire): first
staged zarzuela in the Philippines (1878 or
1879) written by Francisco Asnjo Barbieri
(1855)
 Junto al Pasig: written by Jose Rizal and
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► ZARZUELA
 Teatro Zorilla: inaugurated as home of
zarzuelas in 1893
 zarzuela  sarswela: indigenized by
Filipinos; became a mix of music, prose,
dance, dialogue, and a discussion of
contemporary subjects
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PHILIPPINE THEATER
► PHILIPPINE THEATER TODAY
 attacks contemporary issues and portrays
the real lives of Filipinos here and abroad

 EXAMPLE: Liza Magtoto’s Rak of Aegis

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► PHILIPPINE THEATER TODAY
 Writer’s Bloc
• playwrights’ group which invites young
playwrights to have their unpublished
plays staged in Cultural Center of the
Philippines
• have been annually staging the Virgin
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Click to edit MasterALBERTO
title style S. FLORENTINO
July 28, 1931
Born
Nueva Ecija
September 22, 2018
Died
(Age: 87)
Filipino playwright, short
Occupation
story writer, poet
Carlos Palanca Memorial
Awards for One-act Play;
Notable
Carlos Palanca Memorial
Awards
Awards for One-act Play in
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ALBERTO S. FLORENTINO style

The World Is an Apple, The Cadaver; The Dancers;

Stage Play
Cavort with Angels; and Oli Impan.

Balintataw, Maskikip, Masaki, Mahapdi; Bulaklakan

Drama
Man Ay Lupa Rin; Babae: Ngayon at Kaimlanman;
anthologies
and Ang Daigig ay Isang Patak na Luha

Publishing Bestof2Worlds, Storymasters, Makata, Batikang

Series Kuwentista, and the Peso Books
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THE WORLD IS AN APPLE

Published 24 July 1959

Genre One-act Play

Playwright Alberto S. Florentino

Carlos Palanca
Award Memorial Awards for
One-act Play
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