(2) Famous Filipino Playwrights

Question 1

He was born on April 2, 1788 in Panginay, Bigaa, Bulacan and died on February 20, 1862 of pneumonia. His best-known work is the Florante at Laura.

Answer 1

FRANCISCO ‘BALAGTAS’ BALTAZAR

Question 2

Balagtas learned to write poetry from him. He is one of the most famous poets of Tondo. It was him who personally challenged Balagtas to improve his writing.

Answer 2

Jose de la Cruz (Huseng Sisiw)

Question 3

What did Balagtas do in 1835?

Answer 3

Balagtas moved to Pandacan, where he met Maria Asuncion Rivera, who served as the muse for his future works.

Question 4

Maria Asuncion Rivera was referenced in Florante at Laura as?

Answer 4

“Celia” and “Mer”

Question 5

Balagtas’ affections for Mer were challenged by who?

Answer 5

Mariano Capule.

Capule won the battle when he used his wealth to get Balagtas imprisoned under the accusation that Balagtas ordered a servant girl’s head to be shaved. It was in prison that he wrote Florante at Laura so that the events of the poem were meant to parallel his own situation.

Question 6

When was Florante at Laura published?

Answer 6

After Balagtas’s release in prison in 1838

Question 7

When did Balagtas serve as the assistant to the Justice of Peace

Answer 7

When he moved to Balanga, Bataan in 1840

Question 8

Year Balagtas served as Major Lieutenant.

Answer 8

1856

Question 9

When did Balagtas die?

Answer 9

February 20, 1862 at the age of 73

Question 10

“Father of the Tagalog Zarzuela”

The son of Rufino Reyes and Andrea Rivera. He was born in Sta. Cruz, Manila on February 11, 1861. He studied at San Juan de Letran College and later at the University of Sto. Tomas, where he studied philosophy. A Filipino writer, dramatist, and playwright, He was highly acclaimed as one of the giants of Tagalog literature.

Answer 10

Severino P Reyes

Question 11

What did Reyes found and direct in 1902?

Answer 11

Gran Compania de Zarzuela Tagala

Question 12

a drama set against the historical events in Bulacan during the Philippine revolution.

Answer 12

Walang Sugat

Question 13

Reyes co-founded this, a Tagalog literary weekly which published a series of fairy tale titled Mga Kwento ni Lola Basyang, written by Reyes.

Answer 13

Liwayway

Question 14

The storyteller, Lola Basyang, was based by the author on a neighbor named?

Answer 14

Gervacia de Guzman

Question 15

broadly underscores the injustice of Spanish rule even as it dances around the cruel fate of young lovers Tenyong and Julia with humor and song. Set in the final leg of the Philippine Revolution, Tenyong is forced to leave behind his childhood sweetheart Julia to join the Katipunan. Meanwhile Julia’s mother pressures her into marrying the wealthy Miguel instead. With no word from Tenyong as the battles prolongs, Julia gives in, but her wedding was interrupted by the fatally wounded Tenyong.

Answer 15

Walang Sugat

Question 16

Walang Sugat’s production was directed by?

Answer 16

Ricardo Abad

Question 17

Walang Sugat’s musical director

Answer 17

Josefino Tolledo

Question 18

He handled lights design of Walang Sugat

Answer 18

Jonjon Villareal

Question 19

choreographed Walang Sugat

Answer 19

Dexter Santos

Question 20

Set, and costumes of Walang Sugat were designed by the National Artist?

Answer 20

Salvador Bernal

Question 21

When did Severino Reyes die?

Answer 21

September 15, 1942

Question 22

Born in Manila on August 10, 1946, of parents from Cavite and Camiguin. He graduated at the Ateneo de Manila, after which he obtained a Fulbright grant to finish a doctorate in sociology at Fordham University in New York.

A full-time Faculty at Department of Sociology and Anthropology; Artistic Director, Tanghalang Ataneo; Metrobank Network Outstanding Teachers Pathways/ANI, Ateneo de Manila University Role Players, Theater for Life Social Weather Stations.

Answer 22

Dr. Ricardo G. Abad

Question 23

He has been involved as actor and director in over 120 productions while are the same time doing sociological works as teacher, researcher, and editor.

He has also directed and acted for professional companies like Teatro Pilipino and Tanghalang Pilipino of the Cultural Center of the Philippines, and the Metropolitan Theater.

Many of his theater productions were classics of western drama but in terms of a Filipino and Asian sensibility, like Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet.

Answer 23

Dr. Ricardo G. Abad

Question 24

“Father of Theater Design in the Philippine”

Born in 1945 to a family that ran a Terno shop. He was the first to develop theater design as a profession and elevate it to an art form. He studied at the Ateneo de Manila and at Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA, practiced and handled courses in the art and craft of theater design.
Taught briefly at Ateneo de Manila and University of the Philippines. He had designed more than 250 productions in ballet, theater, and film.

Answer 24

SALVADOR F. BERNAL