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Any new production of Nick Joaquin’s A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS FILIPINO: AN ELEGY IN THREE SCENES may pose a challenge to any theater or filmmaker.
Loy arcenas biography of michael jackson
See, when it was originally written in 1950, Joaquin banked on nostalgia as its clawing theme, consequently stagnating its two main characters as they both cling to a past that will never return. When the Baranggay Theater Guild broadcasted and eventually staged A PORTRAIT in 1955, it came only as a comedy-drama, consequently distancing the deeply-rooted sentimentality of its characters.
And we can only blame ‘time’ for this.
The audiences in ’55 were already at a time of change, as we are now. Gone were the days of the Katipunan and its wars. For its spectators, what Candida and Paula look back to, were vague images of a forgotten past – something we tragically cannot identify with anymore.
But Director Loy Arcenas thrives to bring back this nostalgia in ANG LARAWAN (2017).
Adapted from the 1997 Filipino-musical adaptation of Jo