A marvelous sense of scale, local texture and atmosphere pervades “Lam-ang,” Tanghalang Pilipino’s new musical adaptation of the Ilocano epic poem “Biag ni Lam-ang.” In its best moments, the production has a hypnotic, phantasmagorical feel to it, summoning through the power of words and music a lost world that is unmistakably Filipino. Unfortunately, it is burdened by Eljay Castro Deldoc’s dissonant narrative rendering. Splitting the musical into two acts, Deldoc somehow has also written two entirely different shows: The first […]
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