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The Dulaang UP 40th Theatre Season20/20 Vision: Clarity . Originality . Perspective
#R</3JBased on William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet
ARTISTIC TEAM
direction Dexter Santosadaptation Guelan Varela- Luarca
music composition & designKrina CayabyablightsJohn Batalla |set Ohm David
video Winter David |costume Darwin Desoacido
PERFORMANCE DATES:First Week
August 26 (Wednesday) - 7PM August 27 (Thursday) - 7PM August 28 (Friday) - 8PMSecond Week
September 2 (Wednesday) - 7PM September 3 (Thursday) - 7PM September 4 (Friday) - 7PM September 5 (Saturday) - 10AM, 3PM, 8PM September 6 (Sunday) - 10AM, 3PM, 8PMThird Week
September 9 (Wednesday) - 7PM September 10 (Thursday) - 7PM September 11 (Friday) - 7PM September 12 (Saturday) - 10AM, 3PM, 8PM
September 13 (Sunday) - 10AM, 3PM, 8PM
VENUE: Wilfrido Ma. Guerrero Theater 2/F Palma Hall, UP Diliman, Quezon City
TICKET PRICE:Php 500.00 Regular Ticket Price
*Discounts are available for bulk purchases.
ABOUT THE PLAY
Hungry hearts know no bounds. The struggle to freely find what is real in the abstract language of teenage love is central to Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. The play is a representation of the trappings of forbidden love - secrecy, death, tragedy. Amidst the complications besieging two star-crossed lovers, the urgency and desperation for true love arises. Love is innocent and love is pure. Yet love is also sometimes impatient and unkind.
Romeo and Juliet is set in the city of Verona, a restless milieu of politics and glamour ruled by the Montagues and the Capulets - two perpetually clashing families showing no signs of submission. These conditions pave the way for one of the most enduring tragedies in all of literature. A Montague fights for a chance to love a Capulet. Everybody knows what happens next. We blame the system and the oppressive circumstances that result from it. We blame two lovers who only felt that they had no other choice. But what if the story happened today?
#R</3J(hashtag R broken-heart J)retells the star-crossed lovers’ narrative transforming Verona into a concrete jungle at the heart of Metro Manila – teeming with corruption, revolt, advertisements, sex, social media, and condominium units. The play captures the essence of the most enduring tragedy juxtaposing the young lovers’ romance with our present society’s many forms of commodified love. This is the world of #R</3J, a radical, multimedial hallucination on Shakespeare’s timeless masterpiece.
How can a love like theirs exist in our world, in our time?Exploiting our hyper-real contemporary moment – globalization, ultra-violence, internet nonsense, generation gap – this theatrical project seeks to dramatize, through a psychedelic mix of all available art forms, the postmodern tragedy of our generation. Destroy the city, the family, the government – even Shakespeare! – but never destroy the will to love.
Palma Hall 136, Department of Speech Communication and Theatre Arts, College of Arts and Letters, University of the Philippines Diliman, Quezon City 1101Tel. No.: 926-1349 / 981-8500 local 2449; Telefax: 433-7840 | [email protected]
For inquiries, please contact:
Althea MAriz V. ArutaSponsorship representative, Dulaang UP
0917.930.4750