PHILIPPINE THEATER GROUPS – to maintain
standards of production and a vital cultural force
 Philippine Educational Theater Association
 contrast with other groups
 Innovative and modern perspective
 Issue-based theater (social and political
 1960s: Cecile Guidote
 Tanghalang Pilipino
 Leading exponent
 CCP
 Cultural consciousness
 Original Filipino Play
 1987
 Repertory Philippines
 Chance to watch world class plays
 Les Miserables, Alice in, Miss Julie
 Zenaida Amador and Baby Barredo
 1967
 New Voice Company
 Political and Social concerns
 The Vagina Monologues (2001): About Sex
Trafficking and Domestic Violence
 Male Voice: About Violence in Filipino Men
 Monique Wilson
 Trumpets
 Asia’s first professional gospel theater
group
 Little Mermaid, Joseph the Dreamer
 The Blue Bird. About magical adventure of
two children
 For Emerging Filipino Talents
 Jaime Del Mundo and Rony Fortich (The
Blue Bird)
LOCAL PERFORMING GROUPS
 non-professional theater
 small groups of amateur
 school theater
 ADMU: Dulaang Sibol
 UP: Dulaang UP
 UST: Teatro Tomasno
FUTURE ORIGINAL PERFORMANCE
1. Rise in the number of original plays written
and produced by Filipino Playwrights
2. The increasing interest for theater
3. The new trends featuring spectacles: never
before seen stage productions
ROLES IN A THEATER PRODUCTION
1. Director
 Key figure in theater production
 Reproduce the playwright’s intentions
 Success or failure depends on
 Morale of the people
2. Stage Manager
 Architect of the performing arts
 Structuring lights, coordination
 Marriage of all the elements
 Synchronization
 Set Designer/Production Designer
- Prepares the set
- Furniture, sceneries, props
 Costume, mask, and accessories designer
- Costume: visual element, define
character, believable
 Makeup Artist
- Accentuates normal features
PROGRAM OR DESIGN BRIEF
The production designer meets with the design team to
discuss the details

 Program or Design Brief – can be thought as ab

assignment containing broad objectives,
expectations and the purpose.
- Script of the play
- Style and tone
- The budget, props, work
- Time and place
- Movement and grouping of actors
- The budget in both time and money
- The workforce
- The inventory

ELEMENTS
1. Theme – central idea of the production
2. Plot – story line
3. Characters – actors interwoven with the plot of
the play
4. Script or Libretto – the story of any play is taken
forward by
5. Music or Sound –
o Natural Sounds – feeling of authenticity
o Music – a new dimension occurs
o Dialogue – music that will go with the
dialogue