Nina Mars Cavestany at Benny Chan (Paliwanag) Isang eksperimento ang inyong matutunghayan; mistulang isang larong tinaguriang ‘tudyuan’ namagitan at patuloy na namamagitan sa aming dalawang magkaibigan – Sina Mars (M) na sa Sydney ang basehan at si Benny (B) Perth naman ang tirahan. Matalik na magkaibigang malalim, matagal ang pinagsamahan…
Wanted: Young Artistic Leaders Anywhere and everywhere in the world, whenever mankind celebrates an auspicious historical occasion or people gather for some political gathering or event– the centrepiece of the celebration always begins and ends in the arts. Dulce in Sydney / Photo: Kate Andres Nowhere is the arts more…
Questionings and Patternings: Poetic Attempt # 2 ["Estragon’s declaration 'We were all born mad' in Waiting for Godot may well be understood in both psychological and existential terms. This may be a modern version of original sin, for madness, many believe, is inherent in human nature..." Lois G Gordon ]…
Questionings and Patternings: Poetic Attempt # 1 Definitely not me as I wasn’t cut out To be a poet of no mean feat One who struggles to beat The effeme and the effete Not by any stretch of the imagination Nor by elective circumcision Shall with this blessed league be…
It’s jolting and quite eye-opening really when one wakes up to a sad realisation that I have not, for almost two decades now, produced “great literature” since I migrated to Australia in 1993. Looking back the last time I won a Palanca for a one-act play Isang Dulang Romantiko Sa…
Dulce in Sydney / Photo: Kate Andres Year in year out, Filipino entertainers and artists from our Mother country Philippines are brought here by enterprising producers and promoters who make a fast buck from satiating our hunger for anything that reminds us of home dear home offering us a sumptuous…
Like the proverbial two faces of drama, the recent visit of President Aquino to Australia brought us Filipino migrants face to face with some tidings of great joy and “promises, promises” that only the top gun of our Motherland could make on the one hand; and on the other, the…
Indeed, Pete Malicki’s Room, stands out amongst the fully developed new works I have selected from this year’s Sydney Fringe Festival because it is several notches more sophisticated in ideation and over-all presentation. Pete Malicki Methinks however, that given a deeper, wider, 3-dimensional bone structuring or vivisection of characters not…
Being a Literature and Drama undergraduate major, my knowledge of Australian literature and theatre was limited to my cursory readings about the all-time literary giant Patrick White and some background information I had researched about David Williamson. Williamson is one of Australia’s foremost contemporary playwrights with some 40 plays to…
“Salad Days as Opposed to Darkest Hours” Just as there’s more than one way to skin a cat, there will always be two sides to a coin. Ergo, everyone relates to a significant past in his/her own way given an unimaginable gamut of wide ranging experiences buried in the hearts…
Commentaries on Philippine Studies
Mars Cavestany, APA-PhD is a Sydney-based multi-award winning Filipino Australian theatre director-actor-writer-educator.