Pagmamahal

Of course the food was good, as you'd expect from Milky Way, the iconic restaurant on Pasay Road in Makati, but this lunch the food was outdone by eight bright-eyed young performers, scholars of the Actors Company of Tanghalang Pilipino, recently named National Performing Arts Company for Theater for the period 2024-2029, under RA 11392 or the National Performing Arts Companies Act.

- DOREEN G. YU

This NPAC designation is well deserved for this 38-year-old company, which has soldiered on with well over 100 productions, many of them ground-breaking (remember Zsuzsa Zaturnnah?), thought-provoking, even instigating/inciting (Mabining Mandirigma, a steam punk musical that is a personal favorite) - but not necessarily to rebellion.

I have been a trustee of TP for several years, although I have to admit I've been an almost NPA - non-performing asset - or, in this case, a PPT - poorly performing trustee - but I always try to attend meetings of the Board, as I get a good idea of how the company is doing (quite well, even before the NPAC designation) and what still needs to be done (a lot, for sure).

Our recent meeting, the last for the year, turned out to be a special treat, as the trustees received a surprise gift of music from the AC scholars, all of them wonderful singers, a definite asset since TP has been and will be doing a lot of musical theater.

Tinatawid ng pagmamahal ang panaginip, sa mga sandaling akala mundo ay naiidlip.