'Fake' Leads MyFABE Theater Awards 2011 with Eleven Nominations

Fake by Floy Quintos, a small, talky play from Dulaang UP led this year's MyFABE Theater Awards with 11 nominations, one nomination more than two big and very popular musicals, Care Divas and Zsa Zsa Zaturnnah; the former, a breakthrough hit this year for PETA; the latter, a theater staple of Tanghalang Pilipino of the Cultural Center of the Philippines which both had ten nominations each.  

Repertory Philippines' 39 Steps garnered nine nominations, while Virgin Labfest's Mga Lobo Tulad Ng Buwan and Atlantis Productions' In The Heights got eight nominations each.

Fake got nominations for Best Play, Best Director, two nods for Best Actor (Joel Lamangan, Gerard Pizarras), two nods for Best Supporting Actor (Ross Pesigan, Jerald Napoles), two nods for Best Supporting Actress (Sharmaine Buencamino, Alya Honasan), Best Script for Floy Quintos, Best Costume Design and Best Production Design.

The winners will be announced on December 31, 2011.  This is the first year where the blog is coming out with the MyFABE Theater Awards.  Thirteen different plays and musicals qualified for the nominations.  Only plays and musicals watched by the blogger are allowed to be nominated.

MyFABE Theater Awards: Nominees For Technical Categories

I started watching local theater, seriously again this year.  I saw thirteen different plays and musicals this year and from those, I have come out with my own MyFABE Theater Awards for 2011. 

I have mulled over this list for the past 11 months and in my opinion, these are the five best performances for each technical category -

BEST SONGBOOK

Care Divas

In the Heights

Next to Normal

Sweet Charity

Zsa Zsa Zaturnnah

BEST SCRIPT

Vincent de Jesus - Care Divas

Russell Legaspi - The Valley Mission Care

Joey Paras - Bawal Tumawid Nakamamatay

Floy Quintos - Fake

Pat Valera - Mga Lobo Tulad Ng Buwan

BEST LIGHTING

39 Steps

In the Heights

Mga Lobo Tulad Ng Buwan

Next to Normal

Zsa Zsa Zaturnnah

BEST COSTUME DESIGN

39 Steps

Care Divas

Fake

Sweet Charity

Zsa Zsa Zaturnnah

BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN

39 Steps

Fake

In the Heights

Mga Lobo Tulad Ng Buwan

Sweet Charity

BEST CHOREOGRAPHY

Care Divas

In the Heights

Sweet Charity

William

Zsa Zaturnnah

The winners will be announced on December 31, 2011.

Best Supporting Actress - Play 2011 Nominees: MyFABE Theater Awards

I started watching local theater, seriously again this year.  I saw thirteen different plays and musicals this year and from those, I have come out with my own MyFABE Theater Awards for 2011. 

I have mulled over this list for the past 11 months and in my opinion, these are the five best performances by an actress in a supporting role in a play for 2011.

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS PLAY

Sharmaine Buencamino - Fake

Gimay Galvan - Bawal Tumawid Nakamamatay

Alya Honasan - Fake

Liza Infante - 39 Steps

The winner will be announced on December 31, 2011.

Best Supporting Actor - Play 2011 Nominees: MyFABE Theater Awards

I started watching local theater, seriously again this year.  I saw thirteen different plays and musicals this year and from those, I have come out with my own MyFABE Theater Awards for 2011. 

I have mulled over this list for the past 11 months and in my opinion, these are the five best performances by an actor in a supporting role in a play for 2011.

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR PLAY

Richard Cunanan - The Valley Mission Care

Juliene Mendoza - 39 Steps

Jerald Napoles - Fake

Ross Pesigan - Fake

Rem Zamora - 39 Steps

The winner will be announced on December 31, 2011.

Best Actor - Play 2011 Nominees: MyFABE Theater Awards

I started watching local theater, seriously again this year.  I saw thirteen different plays and musicals this year and from those, I have come out with my own MyFABE Theater Awards for 2011. 

I have mulled over this list for the past 11 months and in my opinion, these are the five best performances by an actor in a play in 2011.

BEST ACTOR (PLAY)

Joel Lamangan - Fake

Gerard Pizarras - Fake

Leo Rialp - Bawal Tumawid Nakamamatay

Siegfried Sepulveda - The Valley Mission Care

Michael Williams - 39 Steps

The winner will be announced on December 31, 2011.

Best Director - Play 2011 Nominees: MyFABE Theater Awards

I started watching local theater, seriously again this year.  I saw thirteen different plays and musicals this year and from those, I have come out with my own MyFABE Theater Awards for 2011. 

I have mulled over this list for the past 11 months and in my opinion, these are the five best directors of a play in 2011.

BEST DIRECTOR (PLAY)

Ana Abad Santos - 39 Steps

Tony Mabenta - Fake

Missy Maramara - The Valley Mission Care

Joey Paras - Bawal Tumawid Nakamamatay

Pat Valera - Mga Lobo Tulad Ng Buwan

The winner will be announced on December 31, 2011.

Best Play 2011 Nominees: MyFABE Theater Awards

I started watching local theater, seriously again this year.  I saw thirteen different plays and musicals this year and from those, I have come out with my own MyFABE Theater Awards for 2011. 

I have mulled over this list for the past 11 months and in my opinion, these are the five best plays for 2011.

BEST PLAY

39 Steps

Bawal Tumawid Nakamamatay

Fake

Mga Lobo Tulad Ng Buwan

The Valley Mission Care

The winner will be announced on December 31, 2011.

Theater Review: Floy Quintos' "Fake"

I just watched my tenth theatre play or musical of the year, this afternoon, and this time, I decided to hit the universities - this time, choosing UP Playwrights Theatre's "Fake", which is on an extended run this weekend, according to the group's marketing team.  Actually, I read an article about the play in Inquirer, and I decided to check it out since there are big names behind it, like Leo Rialp, Ces Quesada and Tony Mabesa.

Well, it is a thought-provoking play!  It delves with stuff that we've taken as truth and the play has exposed them as fakes (although of course, we know already that they were fakes).  That includes an apparition of the Virgin Mary, the Tasadays, and the veracity of the Code of Kalantiao. 

I especially like the second part of the play where Joel Lamangan, who plays the guy who claims to have discovered the Code of Kalantiao, delivers a tour de force performance along with Alya Honasan.  The kid there, Ross Pesigan, is a revelation and Gerard Pizarras as well, who appears in both acts.

I try not to analyze the play too much since I really just watch this for entertainment, but it makes you think about how easy and gullible we are too accept as truth, those which are actually just fabricated lies.  I remember studying the Code of Kalantiao and the Tasaday tribe in grade school!! And they turned out to be both fakes!! Que horror!!  Where are our historians when you need them?  Anyhow, I think we live in a more meticulous age since everything is eyed with more care due to the advances in technology and the speed of transmission of data. It would be interesting to know if another "fake" event or information comes into our national consciousness - and we accept them as fact - because we really need to - during a moment of collective national weakness!