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Order of National Artists of the Philippines, 1997. Wilfrido María Guerrero (January 22, 1910 – April 28, 1995) was a Filipino playwright, director, teacher and theater artist. He wrote over 100 plays, 41 of which have been published. His unpublished plays have either been broadcast on the radio or staged in various parts of the Philippines.
11. Francisco Balagtas y de la Cruz (April 2, 1788 – February 20, 1862), [1] commonly known as Francisco Balagtas and also as Francisco Baltazar, was a Filipino poet and litterateur of the Tagalog language during the Spanish rule of the Philippines. He is widely considered one of the greatest Filipino literary laureates for his impact on ...
Paglipas ng Dilim. Paglipas ng Dilim ("After the Darkness") is a 1920 zarzuela – a Spanish lyric-dramatic genre – written in the Tagalog -language by Filipino playwright and novelist Precioso Palma. A three-act play, the music for the original version of Paglipas ng Dilim was composed by Filipino musician Leon Ignacio.
Baybayin (ᜊᜌ᜔ᜊᜌᜒᜈ᜔, [a] Tagalog pronunciation: [bajˈbajɪn]), also called Basahan and Guhit, erroneously known historically as alibata, is a Philippine script widely used primarily in Luzon during the 16th and 17th centuries to write Tagalog and to a lesser extent Kampampangan, Ilocano, and several other Philippine languages.
Filipino American theater ranges from topics such as Filipino / Filipino-American history to modern Filipino issues. The themes for these works were mostly influenced by the Spanish colonial rule as well as the American colonization. Philippine theater is composed of pre-colonial performance traditions as well as colonial influences from Spain ...
The A Portrait of the Artist as Filipino, known also as "A Portrait of the Artist as Filipino: An Elegy in Three Scenes" [1] is a literary play written in English by Filipino National Artist for Literature Nick Joaquin [2] in 1950. [1][3] It was described as Joaquin's "most popular play," [1][4] as the "most important Filipino play in English ...
Reyes wrote 26 zarzuelas and 22 dramas in his career. [4] He is known as the "Father of Tagalog Plays" and as the "Father of the Tagalog Zarzuela". [5]He took a clerical job at the Tesoreria General de Hacienda as a means to avoid getting enlisted into the Spanish Army to fight against the Moros in Mindanao and Sulu.
Traditional Filipino games or indigenous games in the Philippines (Tagalog: Laro ng Lahi) [1][2][3] are games that are played across multiple generations, usually using native materials or instruments. In the Philippines, due to limited resources for toys, children usually invent games that do not require anything but players.