30th Theatre Season
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Enthralling audiences in over 100 cities worldwide

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IPAG celebrates 30 years
Tenacity and glory in the Pearly year. Trailblazing Ranaw: Isang Alamat is highlight feature for 30th Season

New Theatre incites post show gab
Post Modern theatre on campus dissected, discussed

 'Tales' tours continue in 30th year
IPAG's internationally-acclaimed productions continue to tour the country

29th Season closes: touring repertoire announced
Prodigious Season of 70,000 audiences in 76 shows

30th THEATRE SEASON
bookings particulars

August 2007 various sites, Iligan City	PEARL ANNIVERSARY REVUE celebrating IPAG's 30 years. A multi-production of various creative expressions exhibiting the 30 fruitful years
September 2007 CASS Rooftop Theatre	two new original one-act plays [titles to be soon announced] DirectionHOBART SAVIOR
November Main Theater, Cultural Center of the Philippines	FIBERS OF LIFE a cultural celebration of indigenous Philippine weaving featuring the ancient ikat weaving of Narda Capuyan and designed for clothing by some of the country's leading couturiers Mise en Scene, Music & DirectionSTEVEN PATRICK C. FERNANDEZ  LightsJOEY NOMBRES ProductionIPAG
February 2008 MSU-IIT, Iligan City	RANAW: ISANG ALAMAT a hero misunderstood. Adapted from the North Mindanao legend of Datu Bato Lakungan. This musical play propelled IPAG to national prominence. Winner, CCP Playwriting Contest Direction&PlaySTEVEN PATRICK C. FERNANDEZ
	TOURING PRODUCTIONS
July - September MSU-IIT, Iligan City	TALES FROM MINDANAO TATLO SA ISA the highly-acclaimed international productions recently returned from its US tour of 6 states and 15 cities will continue to enthrall nationwide audiences. In various sites: Manila, Dumaguete, Bulacan, Cabanatuan, Pampanga. Mise en Scene, Music & DirectionSTEVEN PATRICK C. FERNANDEZ  ChoreographyNOLLY CEBALLOS and IPAG
	MING-MING First prize winner in the 2006 Palanca. Three generations of a Moro family cope with history and survival. Site: Bacolod City Direction&PlaySTEVEN PATRICK C. FERNANDEZ
	UWAHIG A multi-media traipse through the elemental landscape of postcolonial, postmodern, war-stricken environmentally ravaged Mindanao. Premiered during the 31st UNESCO International Theatre Festival.  Site: Davao City Mise en Scene & ScriptSTEVEN PATRICK C. FERNANDEZ  ChoreographyFELIMON BLANCO and IPAG  DesignsBOOTS DUMLAO and VICMAR PALOMA   MusicGEEJAY ARIOLA and the MEBUYAN PEACE PROJECT Check related articles: Uncovering Uwahig (also published in the June 19 issue of The Philippine Daily Inquirer)
	BAK2BAK Artificial relationships and odd couples make a play of their lives in these two comedies Babuyan Island by German Gervacio and Isa Pang Kawing by Steven P.C. Fernandez

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IPAG celebrates 30 years
The Pearl: hard, lustrous, valuable. The pearl is also the symbol of 30 years. This year IPAG celebrates its Pearl Anniversary. Thirty years of the performing arts, in the performing arts.

Despite the bumpy road and the many detours, IPAG has firmly settled its place in Philippine Theatre, Dance, and the Arts. Its recognition as a major performing arts company is widely acknowledged. Its productions have been acclaimed in over 100 cities worldwide. It is the Philippines’ most traveled repertory company creating productions in dance, drama, recitals, revues, performance art, and multi-media.

This Season, IPAG’s 30^th year will be fittingly celebrated with an honor’s night that commemorates its 30 fruitful years. Set August 10 (date of its founding in 1978 by Ligaya Fernando-Amilbangsa and Steven P.C. Fernandez), this affair honors the artists and workers who have propped up cultural work with the IPAG. Excerpts of its notable productions will be staged in multi-media.

Citations will be given capped by the Sir Ruffy Ignacio – Niaga Award that shall be received by a distinguished IPAG alumnus whose contributions have been most significant. (Only one other award has been given, and that was to the late Dennis Orellana, founding Visual Artist and originator of the Maranao text lettering and the IPAG corporate seal and logo.)

With the anniversary will be exhibits, performances around the MSU-IIT campus, fora, and the revue of productions that honors IPAG artists, supporters, and its community of audiences.

Keep posted for the specific schedules.

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'New Theatre' incites post-show gab
Uwahig and Of Cocks and Roces did not end with the curtain calls. As was the practice of IPAG, a post-performance dialogue with the audience was held after every show, all 12 in the plays' 3-week run. And more often than not, the plays elicited more questions than answers, a part quite expected by the creators of these two Post Modern plays.

The confusions generated by these two 'Theatres of Semiotics' (as termed by their director-playwright Steven P.C. Fernandez) extended to discussions in the classrooms and in the faculty offices after long discussions in the dialogues. IPAG has in many occasions introduced innovative works (beyond the conventional) that have incited the minds and hearts of its viewers.

Clearly amazed and frozen in their seats, the audiences reveled in their new theatre experience while trying to make sense out of the images and sounds the productions barraged them. In the end, it was the experience that counted as the terms of conventional theatre were thrown out of the theater's windows.

Check related article:
Uncovering Uwahig (also published in the June 19 issue of The Philippine Daily Inquirer)
Uwahig site

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'Tales' tours continue in 30th year
Tales From Mindanao and its sequel Tatlo sa Isa, the internationally-acclaimed productions, continue to tour the country this 30th Season. IPAG also highlights the inauguration of the U.S. Water-supported Cagayan de Oro City water system at the Koresco Hotel. This repertoire will be seen by large audiences in Dumaguete, Bulacan, Cabanatuan, Pampanga, and Manila. Portions of the production recently performed for the Philippine-Australia Community Assisted Program (PADAP) in the Davao City Waterfront Hotel last February 21.

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29th Season closes; 30th touring repertoire announced
A grand season closes to usher in a grander one. The 29th Theatre Season, another prodigious year, produced 76 performances to over 70,000 audiences including 15 full-feature and 10 shortened performances of Tales from Mindanao in a two-and-a-half month coast-to-coast tour of Hawaii and the U.S.

Besides the Tales international tours , IPAG brought its theatre to Cebu, Manila, Davao, and Cagayan de Oro Cities. The company produced Uwahig, Of Cocks and Roces, Patas, New Yorker in Tambacan, and various other productions including one for the 2007 National Arts Month Mindanao opening to cap another banner Season.

Uwahig represented Mindanao in the 31st World theatre Olympics of the UNESCO International Theatre Institute.

It produced 2 3-week runs of its in-base productions: Kwits and Uwahig.

Six workshops were also conducted.

Steven P.C. Fernandez was awarded 1st prize in the Palanca for the play Ming Ming. The book Lakbay Sining (readings on cultural work published by Anvil for the CCP Outreach Silver Anniversary) was also launched during this season.

The programs were made possible with the support of the National Commission for Culture and the Arts, the CCP, Super Ferry, Pioneer Insurance and Surety Corporation, and the MSU-IIT.

IPAG 's 30th Season lines up its in-base productions for national touring. Check information above.

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photo credits: Arvin Solis | Saki Binudin | IPAG | Robert Booc | IOV Taiwan | Ronald Salazar | Steven Fernandez