once on that island...
...and many times over in mine.
i just came back from watching once on this island with bryan and i loved it. i didn't watch it when it was staged by blue rep in ateneo and i backed out at the last minute when i was supposed to watch it last time with my friends.(yes, aisa and trixie, i shouldn't have missed it last time).
the story was, as summed up by a press release, about a girl who loved a boy she couldn't have(ehem,ehem).in the real story, according to bryan who's seen it many time, the ending is more tragic, more "painful", parang little mermaid when it was done by disney. not only did she not die, she got the prince as well! i remember one episode of desperate housewives where they rewrote little red riding hood because killing the wolf might send across the wrong message to kids.
at the start of the play, i was actually rooting for ti moune and daniel, thinking that they would live happily ever after. but being the hopeless romantic(read incredibly naive) viewer that i am, i soon learned that i should've gone for the practical and cynical side of me - that like most love stories that are rarely told, they won't.
during the play, there were two gay guys sitting next to me. before the show started, they were checking out the guys in the audience, even overhearing one gay guy say "ka-date niya ba yung babae o yung katabi niyang mukhang bading na chinito na naka-white jacket? ang gwapo pa naman niya, sayang taken na." i wanted to lean over and say, "yeah, my bet is he's with the other gay guy too." i think it's true what they say that gay guys have a built-in "gaydar" and they can tell offhand if one guy is, to quote samantha,"martini with a twist or straight up." but once the show started, he was lip-synching to the songs. he seemd to be mouthing all the right words and i was impressed that he memorized the entire album. well, i probably would too now that i have a copy of the songs. haha. and during intervals, he was one of those who applauded the loudest. needless to say, he enjoyed the show.
i especially loved menchu lauchengco-yulo who played ezrulie and bituin escalante who played asaka, especially when she sang mama will provide.kuya bodjie was also there and i was half-expecting pong pagong, kiko matsing and the rest of the batibot posse to pop up anytime.hehe.one line that caught my attention was when little timoun asked her adoptive mom what special reason the gods saved her for.and her mom replied, "why timoun, if we knew why the gods did the things they do, we would be gods ourselves."
so what epiphany have i gleamed from the play about loving someone you can never have?that you have to be certain how far you're willing to go and how much you're willing to give because you will be continuously be confronted with the strength of your resolve.when he doesn't notice the efforts you put in for him or when he goes of and falls in love with someone else, you'd have to ask yourself if this is something you can, will, put up with or if this is the point where you give up.it's all the same really, whether we take the plunge or not - we have to own the choices we make (sabi nga sa philo 102 namin kay bulaong).and when we plied the path we've chosen, we embrace it fully and pursue it with all the courage we could muster.and if we fail, then, we take it in as well, with the same dignity as when we made that choice.we make the bed we lie in, ikanga.(or as the play says, our lives are the stories we weave) but if things turned out like we hoped for, then, anhaba ng hair mo ate!hehe.
i just came back from watching once on this island with bryan and i loved it. i didn't watch it when it was staged by blue rep in ateneo and i backed out at the last minute when i was supposed to watch it last time with my friends.(yes, aisa and trixie, i shouldn't have missed it last time).
the story was, as summed up by a press release, about a girl who loved a boy she couldn't have(ehem,ehem).in the real story, according to bryan who's seen it many time, the ending is more tragic, more "painful", parang little mermaid when it was done by disney. not only did she not die, she got the prince as well! i remember one episode of desperate housewives where they rewrote little red riding hood because killing the wolf might send across the wrong message to kids.
at the start of the play, i was actually rooting for ti moune and daniel, thinking that they would live happily ever after. but being the hopeless romantic(read incredibly naive) viewer that i am, i soon learned that i should've gone for the practical and cynical side of me - that like most love stories that are rarely told, they won't.
during the play, there were two gay guys sitting next to me. before the show started, they were checking out the guys in the audience, even overhearing one gay guy say "ka-date niya ba yung babae o yung katabi niyang mukhang bading na chinito na naka-white jacket? ang gwapo pa naman niya, sayang taken na." i wanted to lean over and say, "yeah, my bet is he's with the other gay guy too." i think it's true what they say that gay guys have a built-in "gaydar" and they can tell offhand if one guy is, to quote samantha,"martini with a twist or straight up." but once the show started, he was lip-synching to the songs. he seemd to be mouthing all the right words and i was impressed that he memorized the entire album. well, i probably would too now that i have a copy of the songs. haha. and during intervals, he was one of those who applauded the loudest. needless to say, he enjoyed the show.
i especially loved menchu lauchengco-yulo who played ezrulie and bituin escalante who played asaka, especially when she sang mama will provide.kuya bodjie was also there and i was half-expecting pong pagong, kiko matsing and the rest of the batibot posse to pop up anytime.hehe.one line that caught my attention was when little timoun asked her adoptive mom what special reason the gods saved her for.and her mom replied, "why timoun, if we knew why the gods did the things they do, we would be gods ourselves."
so what epiphany have i gleamed from the play about loving someone you can never have?that you have to be certain how far you're willing to go and how much you're willing to give because you will be continuously be confronted with the strength of your resolve.when he doesn't notice the efforts you put in for him or when he goes of and falls in love with someone else, you'd have to ask yourself if this is something you can, will, put up with or if this is the point where you give up.it's all the same really, whether we take the plunge or not - we have to own the choices we make (sabi nga sa philo 102 namin kay bulaong).and when we plied the path we've chosen, we embrace it fully and pursue it with all the courage we could muster.and if we fail, then, we take it in as well, with the same dignity as when we made that choice.we make the bed we lie in, ikanga.(or as the play says, our lives are the stories we weave) but if things turned out like we hoped for, then, anhaba ng hair mo ate!hehe.
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