![]() Teatrong Mulat and Tita Amel have garnered more than eighty awards and citations, the latest, “Mother of Puppet Theatre in the Philippines”, from the ASEAN (Association of South East Asian Nations) at a Puppetry Festival held in the University of the Philippines (2010). ![]() Sita & Rama: Papet Ramayana (2004) interpreted the Indian epic through shadow puppetry with music by Joey Ayala and Cynthia Alexander. Later works include Papet Pasyon (Puppet Passion Play, 1985), with music by Professor Rodolfo de Leon, which translated the Filipino traditional recitation of the death and resurrection of Jesus into a puppet version for children. Teatrong Mulat became known for the Philippines’ first full-length musical puppet play, Abadeja: Ang Ating Sinderela (Abadeja: Our Own Cinderella, 1977), with music by Professor Felipe de Leon, Jr. Her research for Mulat clarified the need of a theatre for young audiences which presents Asian and Filipino folktales utilizing rod and shadow puppets inspired by the Japanese and Indonesian (rod and shadow). These works were followed by forty-five other plays, two thirds for children and all for Teatrong Mulat. Playwright and director Tita Amel studied theatre at the University of Wisconsin (USA) where her first two plays won a university playwriting competition and were published. Teatrong Mulat ng Pilipinas (Aware Theatre of the Philippines) was founded in 1977 by University of the Philippines Professor of Literature, (known as Tita Amel), and soon garnered national and international acclaim, performing successfully in Japan (1978), USSR (1979), working with Japan’s Ohanashi Caravan (1980) in Metro Manila, and participating in international workshops in the Philippines (1983), Malaysia (1985), Thailand (1987), and Indonesia (1989). ![]() She studied puppet therapy at the London Puppetry Centre on a British Council Grant before emigrating to the United States where she has been active in puppetry since the 1980s. ![]() Īlsa Balutan (Pack Up) Puppet Group Inc., which used Muppet-inspired puppets, was founded in 1976 by Tessie Ordoña (later Tessie Greenfield) to play to diverse young audiences. The different groups/puppeteers have largely specialized in the different puppet forms – -style, or other puppets based on Asian models, technique,, ,, and. Contemporary PuppetryĬontemporary puppetry in the Philippines dates to the 1970s, when puppet theatre was introduced to the Filipino audience as part of theatre for young audiences. The Mantawi Festival (May 7) in Cebu City represents more recent variations on these large parade-style figures. Plaster of Paris and resin are used in building contemporary figures. Since 1987, this has evolved into the building of multiple figures representing each district ( barangay) of the city in a festive event supported by the Department of Tourism. Each higante is controlled by one person who is inside the body of the figure. The 3-metre tall figures were called mag anak (father, mother and child) and had bodies made from bamboo and the head of papier-mâché. The form seems to have been modelled on European, which itself derived from Asian models.įor the last century, three higante () led the procession for the feast of the patron saint of fishermen, San Clemente (November 23), in Angono, Rizal. Teatro Anino (Shadow Theatre) used to present performances in the tradition of the carrillo in Nueva Ecija (a province in Central Luzon). ![]() The form was very common in Calamba, Laguna (a province in Southern Luzon) where national hero José Rizal (1861-1896), as a boy, used to play with the shadow puppets. The carrillo often presented moro-moro (Spanish comedia tales where Christian heroes usually defeat Muslim foes). The first recorded carrillo performances were presented in 1879 along Calle Magdalena, later in 1893 on Calle Crespo in the district of Quiapo in Manila, and in 1896 by Navarro Peralta (producer and actor). The puppet tradition of the Republic of the Philippines dates only from the late 19th century when small carts called carrillo, also known as potei (from Chinese) kikimut and titire (from the Spanish títere) in Pampanga (a province in Central Luzon) would circulate presenting shadow plays with figures made of cardboard. The Philippines gained its independence from the United States in 1946. The islands were ceded by to the as a result of the latter’s victory in the Spanish-American War (1898). The islands were part of the Spanish Empire for more than 300 years as a result, Roman Catholicism became the dominant religion in the country. An archipelagic nation in South East, the Republic of the Philippines (Filipino: Republika ng Pilipinas), with Manila as its capital, consists of over 7,000 islands, with Luzon, the Visayas and Mindanao the three main geographical divisions. ![]()
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