Talent Management
SUPREMO REDUX
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PHILIPPINE STAGERS FOUNDATION (PSF) is a multi-awarded non-stock & non-profit theater company duly organized and registered under the laws of the Securities and Exchange Commission.
For the past 17 years, PSF was blessed to be hailed as one of the Ten Accomplished Youth Organizations of the Philippines by the TAYO Awards Foundation and Dangal ng Bansa by the Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino. It was also recognized numerous times by the Aliw Awards and by the Broadway World Awards for mounting multi-award winning musical productions. PSF was awarded in the 22nd KBP Golden Dove Awards as the Best Program for Culture and the Arts for 2013.
PSF will be offering its various plays and musicals for the 17th season and will be shown in various theater venues in Metro Manila and chosen provinces, one of which is billed as “SUPREMO REDUX”, ISANG MUSIKAL SA BUHAY NI BONIFACIO – a three act musical about the life and sacrifices of Andres Bonifacio
It is in this light that we implore your indulgence and request for an endorsement from your good office to enable us to invite your students to witness our musical and know more about history and the life of the first Philippine Artist through the medium of theatre arts. Rest assured that this would benefit our audience not only academically for it focuses on the holistic approach to study Modern Literature and Philippine History but it is also an Artistic masterpiece in Theater Production not before seen in Philippine Stage.
SINDAK 1941
Out of the oven and into the fire. After 300 years of Spanish colonial rule the Philippines got its first taste of freedom then taken away by the Americans pretending to be the country’s liberator. Sudden twist of events turned everything upside down. History during the era will be told through the eyes of four intertwined souls, brothers Felipe and Nestor, friends Emilia and Sofia, which would eventually unfold the truth of how Philippine independence was won by Filipinos.
The difference between the two brothers was very obvious in the onset, Nestor was more successful in school, and eventually he used all the things he learned in school to start a very successful shoe making business. On the other hand his older brother Felipe ended up ploughing the fields. Eventually they will realize the impact of the war that it spares no one.
When Pearl Harbour was bombed by the Japanese signalling the start of the Second World War, 10 hours after the Philippines was not spared, Intramuros was decimated, HUKBALAHAP was formed and USAFFE experienced a beating from the Japanese forces. Corregidor finally fell, General Douglas MacArthur left with his troops and the hope of the people to Australia. The remnants of the defenders of the Philippines were forced to march to their deaths.
In these trying times our four characters will traverse the challenges of Japanese occupation. They will showcase the resilience of the Filipino spirit and prove to the world that despite all odds, with minimal support coming from the forces of MacArthur from Australia. The brothers will go on their separate ways, Nestor will become a collaborator, using his business ties to get his vengeance for what happened with Emilia. Felipe will eventually join the rebels in the mountains for the fate of Sofia.
The missing links of our history needs to be filled out and this play will try to fill in the gaps. The misrepresentation of our history regarding our efforts in the Second World War needs to be corrected. Our war against the Japanese was made successful because of the Filipino spirit. The country is already winning when MacArthur returned, as such that only 12 out of 40 provinces was left to the Japanese forces and was bound to fall in coming months.
The Philippines is the apex of the Second World War and the end of it is the turning point that would spell success or failure between the ruling powers. The Battle of Leyte Gulf is arguably the biggest Naval Battle in history. Our characters will join us in this tragic battle. Lives will be lost, tragedy will be told, but at the end of the day, Sindak 1941 will give you a spectacular musical experience that would show our history through the eyes of our countrymen and how the resilience of the Filipinos won the day for the Philippines.
