RURIP Playwriting Workshop
RURIP Playwriting Workshop
The 1st ADNU-CEC Rurip: 1-Day Workshop sa Drama was successfully held on August 16, 2024, at the Alingal Multipurpose Hall, Ateneo de Naga University. Excerpts of the plays were dramatically read the following day by Teatro de Sta. Luisa-USI, USI Concert Chorus, and Teatro Aliento de Ateneo at the Social Hall, Unibersidad de Santa Isabel.
Almost a hundred high school students and faculty members graced the event as participant-observers.
Hablon FEST 2.0
Hablon FEST 2.0
Inaugurated in 2023, and with a special emphasis on minorities, such as women and the queer community, Hablon Fest showcased how theater can weave diverse identities and sociocultural realities into a captivating narrative while entertaining and stimulating conversations. This year’s festival theme is “Weaving Identities," featuring 4 playsets staged at the Alingal Multipurpose Hall, Ateneo de Naga University. The following theater groups participated in the event, each presenting a unique play:
Bicol Express Theater Company and Teatro de Sta. Luisa – “Orasyon”
Teatro Ragayano – “Sagwan & Takbo”
Sining Banwa PH – “Gymgurls”
Tanghalang Artikulo – “Sa Pagitan ng mga Titi at Puki”
Teatro Aliento De Ateneo – “Gading”
The first and third sets started at 2:00 pm, while the second and fourth sets started at 6:00 pm. Teatro Aliento De Ateneo performed their play, Gading, in all four sets at 6:00 pm.
Hablon Fest offered a space for artists to collaborate, network, and perform their plays. These plays illustrated the artistic finesse of the actors and theater groups while providing a stage for discourses, interlaced with the richness of the Bikol culture and the performing arts.
HABLON FEST | Day One
HABLON FEST | Day One
Orasyon by Bicol Express Theater Company and Teatro de Sta Luisa
Sagwan & Takbo by Teatro Ragayano
HABLON FEST | Day Two
HABLON FEST | Day Two
GYMGURLS by Sining Banwa
Sa pagitan ng mga T*ti at P*ki by Tanghalang Artikulo
GADING ENCORE PERFORMANCE
GADING ENCORE PERFORMANCE
“Gading”
Written by Jason Chancoco
Directed by Elsie Albis
Afflicted with insomnia and anxiety, a 30-year-old lady nurse visits a psychiatrist. Hypnosis would not work, so they try the lato-lato which also fails. The patient then decides to reveal what is really bothering her, an odd occurrence during her college life at the university—about a stage play she watched in 2014 called "Gading" that revolves around the story of a deceased child whose body seemed to resist decomposition. Based on actual events and on a paper written by a professor who went to investigate the phenomenon, she unveils that the play deeply affected her, the replica of the Gading missing after all these years. Sensing a deeper problem, the doctor resumes hypnosis and instructs her to regress to her past, back to the Gading, the Gading within herself. This time, the method works. In the theater of her mind, she goes back to the year 2014; she goes back to the play and everything about it. And in the process, she brings us, the audience, with her. But behind the curtain, something or someone arises. It decides to step out and become real again, as real as faith, as real as ideology, as real as politics, as real as memory, as real as the imagined--the Gading of 2024.
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