Walang Katumbas
Walang Katumbas, this
year’s play offering of Teatro Paolino and Saint Paul Seminary
Foundation showcased last September 7 and 8, 2012 at St. Paul Seminary,
Silang Cavite the talents of the seminarians both in the acting and non acting
field of Theater.
The play written and directed by Sem. Armando Vizcarra Jr, revolves around a country lad who went to the city to obtain his education. The play employs music, joists and exaggerated comical antics and to sustain interest and unravel a tension the protagonist Ando (Sem. Rogen Angelo Estremera) faces towards the end: to continue his urban life enjoying financial, hard-earned support from her mother yet living a life of lie or to go back home and tread a path of failure that gives him fear or uncertainty whether he would be accepted once again after duping his loved ones. The play ended with the image of La Pieta impressed in one’s memory when two supporting characters veiled the mother, (whose performance stood out to have established affinity with the audience’s emotion) who once again accepted her son without condition, without judgment, without prejudice even as she has already expressed her pain and anguish over what her son has done: a visual image that captures vividly Walang Katumbas, a Filipino expression that will always be wanting when translated into another language.
The play segued from a play fragment by Sem. Winstone Arradaza, which by its theme ushered the audience to a journey into the slice of life made alive in the theater world. The production was also guided by Fr. Dante Lumabas, present novice SSP Novice Master and founder of Teatro Paolino.
The play written and directed by Sem. Armando Vizcarra Jr, revolves around a country lad who went to the city to obtain his education. The play employs music, joists and exaggerated comical antics and to sustain interest and unravel a tension the protagonist Ando (Sem. Rogen Angelo Estremera) faces towards the end: to continue his urban life enjoying financial, hard-earned support from her mother yet living a life of lie or to go back home and tread a path of failure that gives him fear or uncertainty whether he would be accepted once again after duping his loved ones. The play ended with the image of La Pieta impressed in one’s memory when two supporting characters veiled the mother, (whose performance stood out to have established affinity with the audience’s emotion) who once again accepted her son without condition, without judgment, without prejudice even as she has already expressed her pain and anguish over what her son has done: a visual image that captures vividly Walang Katumbas, a Filipino expression that will always be wanting when translated into another language.
The play segued from a play fragment by Sem. Winstone Arradaza, which by its theme ushered the audience to a journey into the slice of life made alive in the theater world. The production was also guided by Fr. Dante Lumabas, present novice SSP Novice Master and founder of Teatro Paolino.