Langgam Performance Troupe (LPT) opens its 11th year of independent, contemporary performance-making with its new upcoming piece, Within and Without End, a meta-devised performance that celebrates and reflects on the craft of acting and performance.
Within and Without End is the first installment in LPT’s ongoing three-part series, The Tekhne Trilogy, a devised saga that explores one’s relationship with the theater machine. A performance about performers within performers, Within and Without End commences the trilogy by embarking on the metaphysical nature and reality of performance through reflection, deconstruction, and re-imagination. Framed as an Open Rehearsal, audience members are invited to witness the live, revealing, and playful process of a performer’s transformation, complete with actors’ warm-ups, improv exercises, exchanging of ideas, and run-throughs occasionally interrupted by notes from the director and dramaturg. The artists create the characters they embody, take ownership of them, and ultimately let them go right in front of the audience, demonstrating what it looks like to live, possess, and inhabit infinite truths and realities within.
No two Open Rehearsals are the same. Through structured improvisation, Within and Without End is a piece that also shapeshifts: not entirely loose, but open enough to arrive at different outcomes with each Open Rehearsal, further emphasizing the inherent ephemerality of performance.
The work was developed for more than two years by Opaline Santos, Serena Magiliw, and the late Joel Garcia, who will be joining the performance through his journal notes. The performance is directed by Jenny Logico-Cruz with dramaturgy by Blonski Cruz, who are also LPT’s artistic director and company manager respectively.
Within and Without End will run on March 13 (8 PM) and March 14 (3 PM and 7 PM), followed by a free Artist Talk on March 15 (1 PM) at 99 Mahiyain corner Madasalin St., Sikatuna Village, Quezon City. Tickets are available for PHP 800 until March 6, and PHP 1,000 afterwards.
Register tickets here:
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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 with guidance from the creative team. Some aspects of the Open Rehearsal contain nudity.
