![]() ![]() (Last week, the dead dictator's birthday was declared a holiday in his home province-Malacañang's doing, of course.)Īs a reminder of our horrific past, the musical is compelling, presenting the atrocities of that time through means as simple as a mother narrating the abuses she suffered, and as novel, if not Dickensian, as the ghosts of martial law victims Dr. Top marks for timeliness, then: Peta's newest martial law musical arrives at a crucial time, in which the revisionist movement to perfume the name of the Marcoses, an act spurred on by the Duterte administration, is in full swing. For Hector and his ilk, it's not selling your soul to the devil if it brings food to the table. In the present, the protagonist, Hector, is part of a company of trolls who defend Ferdinand Marcos' dictatorship from posts and comments that dare speak the truth about that despicable era in history. But in this musical, the realist background dwarfs the make-believe elements it anchors. Martin fantasy novel that has been transformed into the phenomenal TV series. And here's the link to the issue's pdf:Īs advocacies go, "A Game of Trolls," Philippine Educational Theater Association's (Peta) latest musical directed by Maribel Legarda and written by Liza Magtoto, is the one show you have to see this month.įor the unaware, the title is a pun on the George R. They told me the issue where my poems should have appeared never got published, and that they can publish my work in their next issue, if I like. ![]() I emailed the editor, this time without expecting any sort of immediate response, but the very next day, I got an answer. Been running smoothly, from the looks of it, except for a blank in the timeline corresponding to that period when my poems should have appeared. Fast forward to a month ago, when on a whim, I checked to see if the pub is still up. I emailed the editors, even contacted the literary editor through Messenger (I was seenzoned several times), until finally I decided they were probably a fly-by-night thing. Then, the months started passing with no word from the pub. Part of the deal was a contributor's copy (always the best part for me, more than the pay). A little background: Back in 2014, I submitted some poems to Sentinel Literary Quarterly, an online magazine based in the UK, and two of them got accepted. ![]()
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