Ateneo theater company ENTABLADO begins new season with call to look back, never forget

Ateneo theater company ENTABLADO opens its 34th season with a production that hopes to bring the realities of the past to a new generation.

Its production of acclaimed author Lualhati Bautista's "Desaparesidos" will premiere on September 27 and will have showdates until October 15. According to Entablado's assistant coordinator for public relations Pamela Panti, it will be the first time that Bautista's harrowing Martial Law tale will be performed as a play.

ENTABLADO, a proudly socio-political organization as well as an artistic one, chose this story to tell to combat what it sees as the widespread revisionism going on about the Philippines under Martial Law.

"What we hope to do is to relive past events that broke us apart as a nation," said ENTABLADO president Faith Decangchon, noting that the theater company is one with the rest of the ADMU community in denouncing the Marcos dictatorship. "We need to ground ourselves in the reality of the past."

Its theme for the season, "Ginugunita Kata," also emphasizes the need to learn from other people's perspectives, particularly of those who are the most marginalized in society.

Decangchon adds that after the 34th season's theme of looking back to move forward, the season to follow will then be about the future of the country. — BM, GMA News

Entablado's production of "Desaparesidos" will begin its run in September.

For more information about Entablado's 34th season, visit its Facebook page or email admuentablado@gmail.com.