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    Theater originated from performed rituals and has evolved over time with influences from various cultures and periods in history. It is an artform that requires an audience. Early forms of theater in the Philippines included shamanistic rituals and dances (890 BC-1520) and religious and secular plays brought by the Spanish (1521-1898) such as Moro-Moro plays depicting conflicts between Muslims and Christians. Theater proliferated in Manila in the late 19th century and included works by pioneering Filipino playwrights. The Americans introduced vaudeville in the early 1900s but the Sedition Law suppressed politically-charged plays. Musicals became popular in the 1950s and theater continues to evolve today.

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    Theater originated from performed rituals and has evolved over time with influences from various cultures and periods in history. It is an artform that requires an audience. Early forms of theater in the Philippines included shamanistic rituals and dances (890 BC-1520) and religious and secular plays brought by the Spanish (1521-1898) such as Moro-Moro plays depicting conflicts between Muslims and Christians. Theater proliferated in Manila in the late 19th century and included works by pioneering Filipino playwrights. The Americans introduced vaudeville in the early 1900s but the Sedition Law suppressed politically-charged plays. Musicals became popular in the 1950s and theater continues to evolve today.

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    Theater originated from performed rituals and has evolved over time with influences from various cultures and periods in history. It is an artform that requires an audience. Early forms of theater in the Philippines included shamanistic rituals and dances (890 BC-1520) and religious and secular plays brought by the Spanish (1521-1898) such as Moro-Moro plays depicting conflicts between Muslims and Christians. Theater proliferated in Manila in the late 19th century and included works by pioneering Filipino playwrights. The Americans introduced vaudeville in the early 1900s but the Sedition Law suppressed politically-charged plays. Musicals became popular in the 1950s and theater continues to evolve today.

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    Theater originated from performed rituals and evolved into an artform for entertainment. Early forms of theater in the Philippines included shamanistic rituals like Cañao and Kanyaw as well as Moro-moro plays.

    Early forms included shamanistic rituals for healing and ceremonies. During Spanish colonization, Comedia plays depicting European royalty and conflicts between Christians and Muslims became popular. Senakulo passion plays retelling the story of Christ were also performed.

    Playwrights experienced censorship with the Sedition Law during American rule. Drama Simbolico one-act plays emerged as a form of protest. English-language plays and Western genres like musical theater became popular.

    Prepared by Mr.

    Andrew Megano
    Theater is a cultural by-product
    that originated from performed
    rituals.
    IT IS ALSO AN ARTFORM THAT
    NEEDS TO BE CONSUMED AS
    ENTERTAINMENT. THUS, IT
    NEEDS AN AUDIENCE.
    890B.C.
    1520
    People consider the
    deities,
    their prior
    gods and goddesses as to
    the development of
    theatre as we know it
    today.
    1. Caao
    or Kanyaw (Cordillera Autonomous
    Region)
    Officiated by a shaman or Mumbaki, Caao or
    Kanyaw involves
    where the entrails are read through a process
    of divination that is performed for:
    HEALING
    BIRTH OF A CHILD or COMING OF AGE
    WAKES and BURIAL CEREMONIES
    WEDDINGS
    2. Kashawing
    (Lake Lanao in Mindanao)
    Ensures during rice
    planting and harvesting, and is
    still
    observed and performed.
    Involves reenactment of the
    pact
    made by the ancestors and of
    the
    community and the unseen
    1521
    1898
    The shamanistic rituals and dances were

    During the second half of the 19th century,


    theatres

    proliferated in Manila.
    Theatres featured puppet shows, short plays, magic
    shows,
    bullfights and the like.
    Severino Reyes (also the author of Lola Basyang) and
    Hermogenes Ilagan, who wrote sarsuwelas in Tagalog
    were the most distinguished playwrights of their day
    A modern-day production of Severino Reyes 1898 zarsuela Walang
    Sugat
    with Honorata Atang'
    dela Rama (1987
    National Artist for
    Theater and Music) as
    their most celebrated
    leading actress
    2.COMEDIA
    A play in verse, which dramatizes
    events involving monarchs, sultans
    and caliphs in kingdoms of Europe,
    Africa, and the Middle East.
    Depicts conflict between Muslims and
    Christians.
    1. Comedia de Santo or
    celebrations.
    religious
    It centers on the life of Christ or
    of
    any saint.
    2.Secular Comedia (The Moro-moro)
    Moro derived from the Spanish word for moor,
    North
    the African Arabs who ruled parts of Spain from 8th
    15th century. A typical moro-moro story

    .
    3.SENAKULO/CENACULO
    A passion play, was written in 1704
    by

    Its narrative was culled entirely from the biblical


    account of Christ's passions and death on
    the
    cross, adapted into verse form and translated
    into
    Performed during Lent and in some cases, may
    local language.
    last for three days.

    In some areas, the Senakulo was tweaked


    to
    convey Christs suffering as a metaphor for
    Early 1900s
    1946
    With the coming of the Americans, Filipino
    playwrights who had just experienced the
    Philippine Revolution of 1898 against Spain
    now find themselves confronted by
    with the issuance of the
    Sedition Law.
    One-act plays that came to represent a deep
    and
    profound
    Plays yearning
    under for freedom.
    the Drama Simbolico:
    Juan Abad's Tanikalang Guinto or Golden Chain
    (1902)
    Matapang Cruz's Hindi Ako Patay or I Am Not
    Dead (1903)
    Aurelio Tolentino's Kahapon, Ngayon at Bukas
    (1903)
    Lino Castillejo and Jesus Araullo
    authored "A Modern Filipina,
    the
    first Filipino play written in
    English
    LEFT: The Manila Grand Opera House
    RIGHT: The Zorrilla Theater
    Another form of theatre that originated
    in
    France and was popularized by the
    Americans.
    Became popular in the Philippines
    during the 1920s.
    LEFT: The Nicholas Brothers, tap dancing pioneers
    RIGHT: The Ziegfeld Follies
    LEFT: National Artist for Theater and Music, Atang dela Rama
    RIGHT: Catalina Katy Dela Cruz, the Queen of
    Bodabil
    1942
    1945
    1950s,
    Martial Law and
    up to the Contemporary
    Times
    A scene depicting Mr. Leo Martinez as Mozarts rival Antonio Salieri in
    Repertory Philippines 1998 production of AMADEUS

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