"Madcap and Magical" Monday

Being a longtime reviewer, I experienced a pleasant reversal of sorts yesterday when Gibbs Cadiz’s review of the Virgin Labfest 2 plays came out in the Inquirer yesterday. Here’s what he has to say about First Snow of November:

“Alfonso Dacanay’s First Snow of November, adapted from Bienvenido Santos’ The Day the Dancers Came, limned the loneliness of exile with exquisite feeling. More wondrously, the play was also performed (and co-directed, with Go) by PHSA’s Dulaang Sipat Lawin—high-school students whose emotional transparency could give older actors a run for their money.

Abner Delina Jr., all of 16, essayed the role of Filemon Acayan, the aging Pinoy expat in a Chicago nursing home who remembers the US visit of a Bayanihan-like dance troupe 20 years ago. Elegiac and autumnal, First Snow of November played like a heartfelt, bittersweet note on a violin. Among Labfest’s entries, it cut the deepest.”

It may have stormed yesterday, but it might as well have been sunny for me. Ü

Speaking of storm, here’s what Typhoon Glenda did to my family’s santol tree earlier today:


I’m just glad it didn’t fell over my parents’ bedroom.