Suhi

SUHI (Breech Birth) premiered in the 7th APB Theatre Expo in Shanghai, a transplanting of the Oedipus plot to a Philippine setting, condensed from the full-length play that was first staged in 2010 and has been remounted as a regular production in the IPAG repertory.

inspired by the Sophocles classic Oedipus Rex

The clan wars. The scramble for domination. Fratricide. Lives fated to be doomed. Amid the chaos are secrets too shocking to reveal. The ‘gods’ rule these fates. Escape is impossible.

Drawing in the full house to the maelstrom of conspiracy and duplicity, the MSU-IIT IPAG deconstructs “Suhi” (Breech Birth) a deconstruction of the Oedipus tale

Play, Mise-en-Scene, and Music. Steven P.C. Fernandez

StageManagementHERMIE DICO ProductionManagementSHEILA CANETE MarketingARLEM M. ABANES ChoreographyLEILANI M. FERNANDEZ DesignsVICMAR PALOMA HERMIE DICO CLINT JORDAN SABATE LightsMARK SAURA SoundsARGIEL SASIL Multi-MediaMESHAQ DANGEL Sets&PropsSAMMY ADLAON AssociateDirectorsJOHN MICHAEL LAGURA BLESY CECE

Reviews

“Congratulations … bold attempt to present another play disturbing the consciousness of the audience; the excellent bayanihan spirit of IPAG; the promising acting of newcomers … and seasoned performances…. the Iligan Institute of Technology [has] created the atmosphere for IPAG to grow into the professional troupe it has become …” Christine Godinez-Ortega DFA, poet and Founding Director, Iligan National Writers Workshop

“SUHI is incredible.The refrains, the stage, the cresendos, the silences, the final tableau–everything speaks. I love that each character could not help but operate in his own personal truth… . I love the silences most of all. They keep me immersed into the experience of an unfolding that seems to deliberately exclude me and the rest of us on the other side of the fourth wall. Alice (of Alice in Wonderland) articulated it best: the silences “fill my head with ideas, only I don’t know what they are”. SUHI ends with the yet unfulfilled half of the Oedipal oracle, as having learned he has married his own mother, Udin also realizes he is the son of his archenemy. Steven P.C. Fernandez, you ARE a genius. Hats off to you and to IPAG.” Honeylet Dumoran, Associate Professor of Linguistics, MSU-IIT, and Ph.D candidate, U.P. Diliman