Dogeaters at Studio 58 Langara until Saturday - a very brief review
By Roland Tanglao on October 12, 2007 - 12:29am
Dogeaters (a play based on a famous Filipino novel by Jessica Hagedorn) at Langara's fantastic Studio 58 is a must see if you are interested at all in the Philippines. And a bargain at less than $20! The play is unsettling, funny, melodramatic, corny, religious, profane, profound, and sacrilegious, and shows the seamy, corrupt side of the Filipino style of religion, military, politics, and nepotism. In short it mirrors my relationship to my Filipino heritage :-) And the flashbacks and parallels to Benigno Aquino and his life are uncanny and chilling.
Quibbles: accents were off, in particular the frequent mis-pronunciation of "lang" and "di ba" was grating. C'mon there are over 50,000 Canadians of Filipino heritage in Metro Vancouver, could we not have had at least one Filipino actor who could do the accent perfectly? Please? Next time?
that will happen when we assimilate -- i am japanese and know very little of the language, yet wish to know more than English.
ng will challenge us as well as the accented vowels.
yet even japanese is a challenge, too.
but it is best to know more than one language, being the pacific rim when the music is more than American English, especially with this funku multicultural beat of Canada, eh! ;)
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