When parents give a name to their newborn, it is not only a name that they gift their child with.
They also give their baby an identity, dignity, honor.
But he is not ready to answer the pleading of the woman who, from literally nowhere, presents herself as his daughter. He is not ready — or not at all interested to give her a name. And to give a name, as the play positions it, is to give a life. Ningas is a gospel of life and death, sounding like the modern verse in the Book of Ecclesiastes. God is not discussed in the play but His presence is omnipresent in the actions and decisions formulated in the script.
Ross Pesigan as the Lalaki and Geraldine Villamil as the Babae in Ningas gave impressive performances, convincing the audience at the CCP’s Tanghalang Ignacio B. Gimenez of the principles behind their roles. Their acting chops honored life and death — and the literary pause, the dramatic silence between them exploded.Pesigan was a natural; his approach to the role, identifiable.
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