Playwright: Vladimeir B. Gonzales
Direction & Illustrations: Aina Ramolete
Movement Direction: JM Cabling
Dramaturg: Alice Gonzales
Shadowsmith: Sig Pecho
Projection Design: Steven Tansiongco
Music: Arvy Dimaculangan
Set Design: Ohm David
Lighting Design: Andrei Fabricante
First premiered at the ALB Teatro Papet Museo, Quezon City (2024).
Puting Gunaw, a Filipino puppetry adaptation by Vladimeir Gonzales of the White Holocaust or a Pacific Playwright's Protest Against the Bomb by National Artist for Theatre Amelia Lapeña-Bonifacio, follows core characters in their own realities and everyday banalities in the middle of a chaotic atmosphere of looming wars. It examines how war and killings have become almost a daily fair, and how it has impacted humanity even in the littlest of conversations and round-the-clock activities.
The play becomes an unravelling and discovery of the performative masks we perform in phases of our lives. It is most evident in the premier staging of the work with 2 main puppeteers and an ensemble, working with a various type of masks, embodying the key personalities in the play. The characters are all intertwined and entangled in the reality of a much anticipated physical war, and how each character survive their own internal wars. The Play is non-linear and vignette-rich, curated in a progression of personal episodes, epiphanies, and stories of the core characters.
