A Gap in the Telling: Review of Virgin Labfest 17
about 21 months ago (08/04/2022)
A Gap in the Telling: Review of Virgin Labfest 17 | ArtsEquator Skip to content While acknowledging the value of art in addressing national trauma, Pristine de Leon raises questions about the limits, and ethics of representation on stage. In Manila last June, live theatre returned in a black box holding half its capacity. The small crowd at the Cultural Center of the Philippines’ Tanghalang Huseng Batute makes the 17 th year of the Virgin Labfest (VLF) feel like an intimate reunion—but at its heaviest moments, it also seems to invite an unburdening, even a reckoning.