script & direction STEVEN P.C. FERNANDEZ
music CHINO TOLEDO
sets JULIE LLUCH
choreography NOLLY CEBALLOS
poetry GERMAN GERVACIO

inspired by the characters of National Artist Nick Joaquin and the Maranao epic darangen

a dance-music parody that pokes fun at men, women and institutions, and presents the eternal conflicts between the genders.

Nick Joaquin writes his women strong. In many of his stories, his women are dominant; their characters are certain.

In our world full of male images, our women seem to cower under the shadows of these ubiquitous icons. These icons impress in us a consciousness that say males are the stronger sex. Tales and legends are many to reinforce this impression.

In this collage of images and parables, we meet Joaquin’s women and the heroine of the darangen Princess Lawanen. Patches of impressions weave into one dance-music-drama suite drawn from the perpetual contradictions of man-woman, tradition-modernity, fire-water, and sun-moon.

This is the PARABLE OF WOMAN AND MAN. And so it came to pass….

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this production was made possible by a grant from the National Commission for Culture and the Arts