YMPer work at 2009 Virgin Labfest

ROGELIO "Ogie" BRAGA our very own theater artist and playwright will be showing two of his work at 2009 Virgin Labfest at the Tanghalang Huseng Batute, Cultural Center of the Philippines.

So Sanggibo A Ranon Na Piyatay O Satiman A Tadman ni Rogelio Braga,
director Riki Benedicto
June 24: 3pm, 8pm
July 3: 8pm
July 4: 3pm

Written by a Filipino playwright as an ars poetica to a Bangsa Moro freedom fighter Abdul Rahman Macapaar is a story of love, lost and remembrance. Stella, a hooker from the university belt during the Martial Law years remembers the 1971 Tacub Massacre in Kauswagan, Lanao del Norte, Abdul Rahman who longs for a Ranao he left to pursue a dream in Manila, and Aling Ella a spinster who remembers a lost love that haunts her like a ghost. So Sanggibo a Ranon na Piyatay o Satiman a Tadman is both a story of how ordinary people struggle for love, self-respect, freedom and maratabat amid a nation that harbors a dark past and an invitation to a journey in one of the sordid histories of Filipino Nationalism against the Bangsa Moro people.

Ang Bayot, Ang Meranao at ang Habal-Habal sa Isang Nakababagot na Paghihintay sa Kanto ng Lanao del Norte.
June 28: 3pm, 8pm
July 1: 8pm
July 2: 3pm

An unusual rendezvous of two beautiful and sharp-tongue outspoken creatures living at the margins of our society. Take a peak on their engagement as they courageously travel— devoid of any inhibitions, political correctness, and social graces—that rough and ‘older than history’ roads of discrimination, hypocrisy, bigotry, social divides, corruption and unspoken violence to arrive in a decent friendship. The play is a bitter yet funky peppered with a Radio Active Sago Project kick-ass take on the cruelties of our society that condones discrimination which is definitely not so cool.

Tickets to the Virgin Labfest are at P200 for main exhibition sets, P100 for the symposium and "Pay what you can" for play readings. For more details, please contact Tanghalang Pilipino at 8323661, or the CCP Box Office at 8323704.

If you had the opportunity to have watched the plays Ogie is interested to know your views and comments. You are welcome to email him at ogiebraga@yahoo.com

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Ogie's plays and success in the theater industry is the first Note at Moro Note 19 June 2009. Get Your Moro Notes at http://twitdoc.com/c/963nmn.