Tabi-Tabi featured in Sun Star Bacolod today. Thanks to Mr. Danny Dangcalan! A world beyond ours By Danny Dangcalan You woke up and found yourself in an abandoned orphanage inhabited by the spirits of the dead. The house has four partitioned rooms— play alcove, living room, dining hall and dormitory. You enter a room and you see children with ashen faces and eyes staring back at you. You fled and run to the next room, and there you see more children with odd eyes, through furniture and walls. You run next door and you stumble upon a kid sitting in bed, in blood-stained white dress. You thought you are just having a nightmare so you try to wake up. You can’t. You are actually awake. When a house is not a home, they dwell. Welcome to the Horror Room. It’s a horror-room theater that opens tomorrow and Sunday (June 28-29), at the rectory parlor of the Redemptorist Church in Bacolod. Dubbed “Tabi-Tabi,” tour hours will be from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. of Saturday and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. of Sunday. Tickets to the horror room are pegged at P20. Director-writer Fundador Mytor Tipon II says “Tabi-Tabi” is a Hiligaynon catchphrase in popular Filipino superstition meaning “please let me pass by,” uttered by travellers in unfamiliar spaces requesting permission to passage and signifying respect to beings. Guests to the horror room will enter a four-partitioned room and will see classic (communicative) and residual (memory-like) haunting vignettes to be performed by children actors, he adds. Tipon, who is also the writer-director of the play “Si Kan Laon, ang Sota kag ang Pito ka Ulo nga Dragon” that was successfully staged at The Negros Museum last summer, says having a cast in “Tabi-Tabi” mainly composed of street kids is a tough challenge. “It’s a first time in my 20 years of theater. The experience has then evolved into an integration process of the craft vis-à-vis realistic social situations while incorporating basic values on simplest scale,” he adds. “Seeing the kids’ gradual transformation is a heart-warming achievement in itself. This project not only serves as a charity canvas but essentially as an outreach to the shrine’s community,” Tipon says. This two-day exciting weekend treat is part of the Church Fair for the Feast of Our Lady of Perpetual Help (official name of the Redemptorist Church) organized by the John Paul II National Institute for Studies on Marriage and Family, with the theme, “Empowering of Families for the Transmission of Faith towards Social Transformation.” Helping Tipon in conceptualizing and directing the horror room are associate director Kim Chauven Villaluna, with lighting designers Rey Valderrama and Jones Javier, production manager Greg Valencia, and stage managers Harold Calamohoy and Matthew Sandoval. The show is produced by the John Paul II Institute headed by Msgr. Victorino Rivas, with executive producers Bebol Carreon, Fati de la Rama, Bopep Golez, Ann Ledesma, and Menchi Tan, along with house volunteers from Riverside College’s Campus Ministry. Meanwhile, Redemptorist will also restage “Si Kan Laon, ang Sota kag ang Pito ka Ulo nga Dragon,” at 7 p.m. tomorrow at the fountain stage, featuring again the Kiddie Theatre Workshop Class of Tipon last summer.*
Posted on: Thu, 26 Jun 2014 23:27:05 +0000
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