The Philippine Educational Theater Association (PETA) turned 56 years old as the whole nation observed Black Friday.
Meanwhile, its current hit musical, a farce called “Walang Aray” will re-open on April 14 at the PETA Theater Center after taking a month-long break. after nearly a three year-long break due to the pandemic. This modern-day adaptation by Rody Vera of Severino Reyes’ classic zarzuela “Walang Sugat” has been described a successor to PETA’s all-time hit, “Rak of Aegis."
At the time, Guidote just came from finishing her graduate studies at the Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas, with apprenticeship at the Dallas Theatre Centre. She would eventually marry Heherson Alvarez, then a young student leader and freedom fighter from the University of the Philippines. Titled “Bayaning Huwad,” the story is about a man who offers his goddaughter to an American soldier in return for his family’s farmlands that have been taken away from them.Robert Arevalo and Vic Silayan with PETA Kalinangan Ensemble actors in a scene from "Bayaning Huwad". Photo from PETA Archives courtesy of CB Garrucho
“Lino Brocka came late in auditions but wanted to be involved so I created a cameo role for him,” Guidote-Alvarez wrote in her memoir. At the time, Brocka was still studying in UP Diliman but she would eventually turn over to Brocka the management of PETA when she left for the US as an exile during the early days of Martial Law.
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