It is really not uncommon in UP Cebu that you’ll see at least once a Cebuano play staged in the big limelight or just in the ordinary classroom setting.
Our school has been advocating for the resurgence of local, that is, Cebuano literature ever since they realized that it is slowly drowning into oblivion.
Ever since high school, I’ve been exposed to the staging of Cebuano plays (original or not). I once hated it — I’m the guy who would love to see or cast in an English play rather than a local one. But things have changed, I have either grown mature to like it or I have grown deaf and tired of disliking it.
I have been into two Cebuano plays in the past. My first one was Mini, playing the money-hungry protagonist and the second one Lili, playing a no-care Filipino guy from America. Both are written by Buenaventura Rodriguez. Both were definitely some experience. I’m supposed to be cast of a Cebuano play that was staged in SM but I had to be replaced because my flight to somewhere is in conflict to the first showing of the play in school. Too bad, no exposure. Boo hoo.
Anyways, in lieu to all of those, we will be restaging Mini again for our Literature 1 class. I don’t know if I’ll play the same character again which is actually fun. It is so much fun to be the protagonist — for my part, no effort needed. But anyways, I retrieved the production album of the first staging and basically everything’s been fed to us — script, cues, setting, etc. It’s all in the production album. All we have to do is stage it again. The problem is on the characters. New set of people are with us. We need one nagger-y girl and sadly, we have to delete a character because we lack one male from the team — only ten of us.
Good luck to us! I hope it to be a success and we hope against all odds that we beat the other group which, by the way, are doing some Contemporary Period literary piece. Good luck to them, and more luck to us!
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