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Set in the Filipino world of pre-World War II Intramuros of Old Manila in October 1941, the play explores the many aspects of Philippine high society by telling the story of the Marasigan sisters, Candida and Paula, and their father, the painter Don Lorenzo Marasigan.
Jan 31, 2018 · They’ve understandably missed the boat because they’ve been taking care of their father, Don Lorenzo “El Magnifico” Marasigan, a renowned painter whose last painting he has bequeathed to the two sisters: the portrait shows Aeneas carrying his father Anchises in his back amid the sack and torching of Troy, both figures carrying the same ...
Oct 10, 2017 · The Portrait is a Barthesian text: the visitors to the Marasigans’ are the readers, and the Portrait was not finished when Don Lorenzo had dappled the last dab of pigment on it; rather, the Portrait is painted every time a character witnesses it.
Since its opening night in her Amingtahanan Sala Theater to this very day, there has never been a year that did not see a Naty Crame-Rogers production of Portrait of the Artist as Filipino, often in her home more than anywhere else.
Jan 8, 2018 · Their father, the famous painter Don Lorenzo Marasigan (Leo Rialp), paints a haunting image of a Greek legend as his self portrait, before an accident leaves him bedridden and incapable of providing for them.
Jan 8, 2018 · In the movie, Don Lorenzo Marasigan, a painter, was at a stage where he was struggling to produce artworks. He only had one painting left which he and his spinster daughters refused to sell despite the fact that they were in dire financial need.
Feb 8, 2021 · The narrative presented by Joaquin in “Portrait” reflects the latitude and dynamism of Philippine history. The play, as are the Marasigans, is embedded in a cultural, nationalistic, economic, and aesthetic interregnum wedged between two colonial paradigms: the Spanish and the American.
