HEADLINES

IPAG premieres Ming-Ming to critical acclaim
National premiere receives enthusiastic attention. IPAG's newest production is toast in CCP Adindanao festival.

Another standing ovation for IPAG Q.C. show
"Tales" impresses Holy Family School audience

IPAG mounts 'Ming Ming'
post-modern play promises to be another major work

IPAG wraps up 6th touring leg
Negros cities greet IPAG with electric responses


EVENTS SCHEDULE

one turf, two families, three generations, four characters... a play by STEVEN PATRICK C. FERNANDEZ	February 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, March 2, 3, 4, 5, & 6 7:30 p.m. CASS Rooftop Theater February 22 (Sun), 3 p.m. Cultural Center of the Philippines for ADINDANAO (Mindanao Arts Festival) Tanghalang Huseng Batute
Tales From Mindanao national tours	January 19 - Miriam College 22 - Museo Pambata 26 -Sagay City 26 - Cadiz City 29 - Talisay City 30 - Bacolod BAY Center February 26 - Calamba, Laguna 27 - Holy Family, QC (check CALENDAR for Jan-March 2004 show schedules)
Inauguration and re-opening of National Steel Corporation	February 3 Iligan City
Auditions and Training	January continuing  2004

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Ming Ming premieres to critical acclaim in CCP
IPAG's newest play 'Ming Ming' premiered to a Standing-Room-Only audience at the Cultural Center of the Philippines Tanghalang Huseng Batute last February 22. Critics agreed that this novel post-modern play was the "most refreshing development in Philippine Theater today."

The jam-packed theater gave its double thumbs-up approval to the IPAG. Reports indicated that the play had sold out tickets two weeks before the show date. "Ming Ming" was featured in the Adin Danao Mindanao Arts festival where outstanding Mindanaon works were showcased.

"Ming Ming" completed its final week-run in the CASS Rooftop Theater March 2-6. It goes on a national tour for IPAG's 27th Season.

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School gives "Tales" long standing ovation
The Holy Family School in Teachers' Village, Quezon City greeted the curtain call of IPAG's "Tales" with a standing ovation. Impressed by the outstanding performance of the Guild, the school community informed the IPAG that this was the first time the school allowed the entry of non-commercial performances. Previously, they only invited popular commercial artists because they were wary of the quality of presentations cultural groups presented. IPAG performed last February 27 to another sell-out crowd.

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IPAG premieres Ming Ming

One turf, two families, three generations, and four characters: this sets the plot of the latest play of the Integrated Performing Arts Guild (IPAG) entitled Ming Ming.

Set in the heart of Moroland, Ming Ming recreates characters whose lives intertwine in a web of intrigue, politics, deceit, and romance. The play mirrors the anguish of three generations and the wars that drape an influential clan's conflicts.

IPAG reconstructs events and persons using the post-modern stage. The play penned by director-playwright Steven Patrick C. Fernandez whose major works have showcased the enigma and lifestyles of the island and its people re-invents local color for the modern stage.

The play's theme is a sensitive rendering of the conflict among politically-powerful Moro families: the need to cope with the changing conditions to survive, where tradition and religious fanaticism clash with the liberal ideas of the West.

Dance, visuals, a crisp plot, innovative direction, and meaningful storytelling in "Ming Ming" are the benchmarks of IPAG productions that have established the Guild as one of the country's leading repertory companies.

"Ming Ming" is produced with the support of the College of Arts and Social Sciencess, the National Commission for Culture and the Arts, Superferry, Pioneer Insurance and Surety Corp., 101.4 Star FM, and the MSU-IIT.

"Ming Ming" goes onstage 7:30 p.m. in February 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, March 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6, 2004, at the Rooftop Theater of the College of Arts and Social Sciences, MSU-IIT, Iligan City. It performs for Adindanao, the Mindanao Arts Festival at the Cultural Center of the Philippines, at the Tanghalang Huseng Batute, 3:00 p.m. in February 22.

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IPAG wraps up 6th Touring Leg
The MSU-IIT Integrated Performing Arts Guild (IPAG) has just wrapped up its 6th Leg of its "Tales From Mindanao" national tours from January 19 to 31 in Manila and the Visayas.

“Tales” continues to electrify diverse audiences in all its touring legs around the country.

These dance vignettes of Mindanao stories using IPAG's signature dance theater idiom have reached diverse audiences. To date, "Tales" has performed to over 40,000 audiences in this 26th Season alone. In its last leg, it performed to banner crowds in Lipa City, and Cadiz, Escalante, Victorias, and Bago Cities in Negros.

These tours are part of a larger advocacy to bridge communities for peace through theater. IPAG is the resident cultural company of the MSU-Iligan Institute of Technology and acclaimed as a leading theater in the country today. It has won much acclaim in its wide international tours in Europe and Asia.

The 6th leg schedule follows: Miriam College (Jan. 19), Museo Pambata (Jan. 22), Cadiz City (Jan. 26), Sagay City (Jan. 26), Talisay City (Jan. 29), and Bacolod City (Jan. 30).

Supporting the IPAG are WGA SuperFerry (exclusive carrier of the national IPAG tours), the National Commission for Culture and the Arts, Pioneer Insurance, Jollibee, and the MSU-IIT.

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photo credits: Saki Binudin/IPAG/Robert Booc/IOV Taiwan