Langgam Performance Troupe (LPT) opens its 11th year of independent performance-making with Within and Without End (WAWE), a meta-devised work that reflects on the craft of acting and performance.
A performance about performers within performers, WAWE commences a trilogy that explores one’s relationship with the theater machine by exploring the metaphysical nature and reality of performance. As an Open Rehearsal, audience members will witness a performer’s transformation, complete with actors’ warm-ups, improv exercises, exchanging of ideas, and run-throughs occasionally interrupted by the director and dramaturg.
WAWE also shapeshifts: not entirely loose, but open enough to arrive at different outcomes with each and every Open Rehearsal, further emphasizing the inherent ephemerality of performance.
WAWE was developed over two years by Opaline Santos, Serena Magiliw, and the late Joel Garcia, who will be joining the performance through his journal. The performance is directed by Jenny Logico-Cruz with dramaturgy by Blonski Cruz, who are also LPT’s artistic director and company manager, respectively.
After successful runs in March and May, the company would like to give more people outside Metro Manila the opportunity to join an Open Rehearsal. They are doing a fundraising run for this show this September in order to fund runs in Batangas, Quezon, and beyond.
WAWE will run from September 18 through 20 at 99 Mahiyain corner Madasalin St., Sikatuna Village, Quezon City. Tickets are PHP 1,000 each and are available through the Langgam Performance Troupe ticketing page. We offer discounts for groups and returning audiences.
The audience is encouraged to register early as space is limited. The Open Rehearsal may require audience members to take off their shoes and move around the space accordingly with the guidance of the creative team. Some aspects of the Open Rehearsal contain nudity.
