How Great Thou, What?

The STAinEd's First Show last March 6 is mission accomplished. I can simply say a succesul one as it finally delivered a "Teatrong Walang Takot sa Halimaw at mga Chihuahua na sumisira sa Sining ng Dula". The audience composed mostly of STA students had great shouts and applause, agreeing to the message on the rotteness of STA system.

Even though the production suffered from financial difficulties as none of the STA graduates we approached supported us, we found ways to have "STAinEd" be performed onstage. And now we are happy to annouce that the Second Show will push thru this coming June with a better plan, having learned our lesson.


Personally, I feel discouraged if not nutty to some STA graduates which were part of our play parade during college days, who were so eager to stage a play yet now not so interested to the craft anymore. So, I accepted their apathy as indication of the "TRUE REASON" on taking a course not designed to their blood type.

"Just-in-Need-of-a-Degree" or "Just-want-to-be-Famous-in-School" or "I-want-to-be-called-Artist" or "I-want-to-be-a-BU-student"

How's that?

Quite simply, it's more of staging rather than doing.

Arvin, my co-theater-worker, told me about a reaction of one of our classmates from STA Class 2005 upon knowing that our group is going to stage a play, as we ask her or him to be part of the play by being a donor or sponsor or whatever.

The Reaction?


- "Di ba matapos-tapos yan?"


Whew! Nice. Very Nice. So uncanny an answer from a graduate of Theater Arts. He/She should know our "drive" - the very thing that fuel the mind to create, to work, to juggle imagination into form. He/She should know that our craft is incessant in nature. (So dogmatic if I call it "passion" eh, so drive na lang). Well, no wonder why it is just right to stage a play, like STAinEd, that tackles pointless STA student minds, clueless on the taken course.


I was so stupid. I should have never asked help if I only knew the comformist thoughts of our former classmates. Wika nga ni Arvin, "makakamundo". Yup, so sad indeed. Well, maybe they are just practical in life now. What can a stage play do to them in the first place? Does it have something to contribute to their already-rich-senses? Does it answer the TRUE REASON of taking Speech and Theater Arts course?


So stupid Emil, so stupid.


By the way, where are the 7 Aces? Oh my! Maybe in deep slumber, suffering still from hang-over brought by Buwan at Baril. Peace Bros! Hahahahaha