Great News! The 60th Anniversary of the Fulbright

Our production of Marisol has the honor of being one of the events to celebrate the 60th Anniversary year of the Fulbright Program in the Philippines! To commemorate sixty years of international exchange and mutual understanding between the United States and the Philippines, Marisol will have a gala performance the evening of May 16, for Fulbright alumni and other special guests. We hope to have guests from the U.S. Embassy at the performance, as well as any incoming U.S. scholars that have arrived. We look forward to getting together to celebrate this honored and prestigious tradition.

Established in 1946, the Fulbright Program aims to increase mutual understanding between the peoples of the United States and other countries, through the exchange of persons, knowledge, and skills. (http://www.iie.org)

“May sakit ang sanlibutan, Marisol…. -- Anghel

In celebration of the 60th Anniversary of the Fulbright Program in the Philippines, the UP – Diliman, Department of Speech Communication and Theatre Arts and the Philippine – American Educational Foundation (PAEF)

present

MARISOL
By José Rivera
Filipino Adaptation by Rody Vera

Directed by Krystal Banzon
2007-2008 American Fulbright Student Scholar

May 14-17, 2008 at 7:00pm
Teatro Hermogenes Ylagan, Faculty Center, UP Diliman.

And Our Cup Runneth Over...

We were in rehearsal this afternoon working on Act I.1 when an awesome delivery was made. A great big thank you to The Family of Cristina and Ramon Mendoza for this amazing donation. We have enough caffeine, sugar, and liquids to keep the cast of Marisol going through the long hours - five cases of Coke Zero, two cases of Wilkins Bottled Water, and ten cases of Eight o'Clock FunChum Apple Drink!

The ourpouring of support for Marisol has been more than we could have asked for. Thank you all for your belief in this project.

We are still inching our way toward our minimum financial goal of PHP 200,000! If you would like to make a financial donation, click on the PayPal donation button in the right hand nav bar.

If you are in the Philippines and interested in making a material donation (GLOBE phone cards) or in sponsoring a specific part of the production (program, poster, post-show reception) please contact me and we can discuss other ways for you to help!

To read more about this project and what Marisol is all about, click here:
"Why Marisol?"

A Great Donation!

Marisol is all set for rehearsal thanks to this generous donation by Daniel Mendoza and Family! I can now say my actors won't starve (they're practically Actor's Equity with this kind of treatment! Joke lang!) during long, intensive rehearsals.

We've got a lifetime supply of Sky Flakes, Nescafé, styro cups, and napkins. Maraming, maraming salamat to the Mendoza Family.


Donations come in all sort of shapes and sizes - cracker and coffee shape, cash/check/credit shape, lovely break-a-leg email shape, complementary massage shape... ;)

But if you're just so eager to help, but you're so far away and you can't go grocery shopping with me, you can click on the PayPal DONATE button in the right hand nav bar! Any goodness of any shape and size will forever be appreciated.

To read more about this project and what Marisol is all about click here: "Why Marisol?"