EVERY FILIPINO FAMILY MUST WATCH Excerpts from the article Tropical Gothic: Nick Joaquin Revisited by Joseph Galdon. Nick Joaquins stories reflect the theology of culture, but the theological levels are folk levels than dogma. National Artist Bienvenido Lumbera called Nick Joaquin our most stimulating lay theologian in 1968. In December of 1975, Joaquin published Fathers and Sons. A melodrama in three reels, which is a dramatization of his earlier story, Three Generations. The play emphasizes freedom and choice. The theological speeches of (seminarian) Chitong (the youngest among the three generations of the Fathers and Sons), make Joaquins intentions obvious. Speaking to his father, Celo, Chitong said, Father, will you hear me? I just want to point out one thing. Father, listen to me ! Character is not something we inherit. It is something we create. If we cannot blame our fathers for what we are, neither should we blame ourselves for what they were. Each of us is a new person; and only we, are responsible for that new person. Oh, yes, there are fathers and grandfathers, and who knows what ancestors crowding within us-but all of them are just ghosts, Father -impotent, powerless, ghosts, unless we allow them to create us in their image. That was a primitive age that said the sins of the fathers would be visited on their children unto the third and fourth generation. Charity began when God said...when God Himself said, No more shall anyone say that because the fathers ate sour grapes, the childrens teeth are set on edge. In Fathers and Sons, Joaquin, the theologian and moralist is speaking out more clearly than he did 25 years ago. Nick Joaquin MGA AMA MGA ANAK Robert Arevalo Spanky Manikan Nanding Josef Celeste Legaspi Jackie Lou Blanco Madeleine Nicolas Banaue Miclat-Janssen Peewee OHara Cris Villonco Marco Viana and the Tanghalang Pilipino Actors Company JOEL LAMANGAN DIRECTION February 29 - March 9 2014 Tanghalang Aurelio Tolentino Cultural Center of the Philippines TICKETS: Regular: Php800; Student: Php400 20% discount on the regular price for senior citizens, government employees, military employees and PWDs. (Please present valid ID) Tickets now available at all TicketWorld outlets. Call TicketWorld at 891-9999 or contact Tanghalang Pilipino at 8321125 loc 1620-1621, 0917-750-0107 for more details Photography by MANILA AVID PHOTOGRAPHERS Enhanced by Tuxqs Rutaquio
Posted on: Wed, 15 Jan 2014 23:31:35 +0000
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