3rd Virgin Labfest @ CCP

The 3rd Virgin Labfest is on its second week. You can still catch the shows. The Virgin Labfest (VLF), a festival of new plays (untried, untested, unpublished and unstaged) by both emerging and well-known playwrights, directors and actors, is now enthusiastically looked forward to by artists and audiences alike.

This year's festival boasts a repertoire of 15 short plays in five trilogies as the main exhibition list, and 3 additional independently produced plays. Here's the schedule for the next few days.

Thu, July 5
3PM - Madadramang Pamilya (Tanghalang Huseng Batute)
8PM - X X and X : Hindi Pang-Isip Bata (Tanghalang Huseng Batute)

Fri, July 6
3PM - X X and X: Hindi Pang-Isip Bata (Tanghalang Huseng Batute)
8PM - Ang Pagdadalaga at Iba pang Rebelasyon (Tanghalang Huseng Batute)
8PM - Identity and Politics (Bulwagang Amado Hernandez)

Saturday, July 7
3PM - Ang Pagdadalaga at Iba pang Rebelasyon (Tanghalang Huseng Batute)
3PM - Identity and Politics (Bulwagang Amado Hernandez)
8PM - International Night (Tanghalang Huseng Batute)
8PM - Identity and Politics(Bulwagang Amado Hernandez)

Sunday, July 8
3PM - International Night (Tanghalang Huseng Batute)
3PM - Identity and Politics (Bulwagang Amado Hernandez)
8PM - Madadramang Pamilya (Tanghalang Huseng Batute)

Staged Readings at 7PM (Little Theatre)
Malou Jacob's Huling Salubong
Tim Dacanay's Teatro Povenir

Platform Discussions at the Little Theatre Lobby, 5:45PM
Wed, July 4 -The Pinoy Comedy: Main Ingredients and Directing Challenges
Thu, July 5 - Depicting Violence in Theater: Necessary Evils?
Fri, July 6 - Depicting Children and Young People in Gay Drama
Sat, July 7 - Identity and Politics
Sun, July 8 - First Time Virgin Labfest Directors: Experiences and Challenges

Read more about the plays being featured in each section or download our schedule at our website http://www.virginlabfest.com.

The Virgin Labfest is a joint venture of the Cultural Center of the Philippines (Sentrong Pangkultura ng Pilipinas), Tanghalang Pilipino, Writers Bloc, Inc., and the National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA) with the generous support of the Japan Foundation Manila.

Tickets to the Virgin Labfest are at P200 for plays to be shown at the Tanghalang Huseng Batute & Bulwagang Amado Hernandez, and Pay-What-You- Can for play readings at the Tanghalang Aurelio Tolentino. For more details, please contact Tanghalang Pilipino at 832-3661, the CCP Box Office at 832-3704, and Ticketworld at 891-9999.