The Summer Solstice opens Dulaang Laboratoryo's festival season

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This coming March 6-8, 2020, Dulaang Laboratoryo would open its festival season with Nick Joaquin’s Summer Solstice, a chamber theatre adaptation by Allen Baylosis. With this, we are inviting your company to be one of our media partners.

The story features controversial themes about the three-day Tadtarin ritual where women celebrate their femininity and fertility. It is set on the feast day of Saint John in the 1850s. Beginning in the possession of Amada, Entoy’s wife, by the Tadtarin spirit, Doña Lupeng is stirred into skepticism and awe about the age-old ritual in their town. She mocks men in the procession, and she listens to Guido, her husband’s cousin, telling her about the supremacy of women. Don Paeng, her husband, claims that women should need love and respect, not adoration. The drama continues to Doña Lupeng’s decision to join the ritual, giving her momentary power, and Don Paeng submitting to her presence.

The adaptation of The Summer Solstice into a Chamber Theater Performance is a new meaning-making feat about this timeless classic that taps issues on gender, power, and structure—making it one of the most important literary works in history that is Nick Joaquin’s legacy.

The all-student cast production of "The Summer Solstice" would run from March 6 until March 8, 2020 at the Teatro Hermogenes Ylagan (THY), Pavillion 3, Palma Hall, UP Diliman.

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