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Aug 27, 2017 · This birth centennial commemoration features one of Nick Joaquin's greatest plays, FATHERS AND SONS and its Filipino translation MGA AMA, MGA ANAK by National Artist for Literature Virgilio S. Almario and multi-awarded writer Jose F. Lacaba.
Classic short story. “Fathers and Sons” was Joaquin’s 1976 adaptation of his classic short story published in 1940, “Three Generations,” about the fraught relations of a patriarch and his family amid changing times. Zacarias Monzon, once the powerful carretela king of old Manila, is played alternately by Leo Rialp and Menggie Cobarrubias.
Mar 29, 2020 · What do you get when a Nick Joaquin classic gets translated by Virgilio Almario and Jose Lacaba, directed by Tony Mabesa, and brought to life by veteran thespians like Leo Rialp and Rody Vera? For the opening salvo of its 42nd season, Dulaang UP stages Fathers and Sons – a powerful work of not just…
The UP Playwrights Theatre’s current production of Nick Joaquin’s “Fathers and Sons,” directed by Tony Mabesa, has to be the most buoyant interpretation we’ve seen yet of this classic.
Sep 9, 2017 · "Fathers and Sons" was written in English by Nick Joaquin based on his own short story "Three Generations." This was in 1976, exactly the year when he was declared National Artist for Literature.
Sep 21, 2017 · Tony Mabesa directs both “Fathers & Sons” and the Jose F. Lacaba and Virgilio Almario translation, “Mga Ama, Mga Anak”, with a directness that allows Joaquin’s resonant words to bear new relevance decades after its writing.
Sep 20, 2017 · Set in the mid- '70s, "Fathers and Sons" ("Mga Ama, Mga Anak") introduces the audience to the dying Zacarias Monzon, a self-made man who earned his "karitela king"...
