A hero’s life in three stages

The play Her Son, Jose Rizal oozed with emotional intensity and lifted dramatically to professional status by singer-actor JC Rosales and actress Ala Paredes. Justice was done to the late playwright Leonora Oroza-Gonquingco by a mixed cast of professional and amateur actors, overseen by part-time director Armando Reyes [...]

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Jose Rizal play premieres in Sydney

Fine Artists Collboration (FAC) depicts on stage the Philippines’ national hero’s life in Leonor Orosa Goquinco’s theatre magnum opus, “Her Son, Jose Rizal.”

Performances are slated on 17, 18 and 19 of June with special matinee performance on the 20th at 2:00pm at the Tom Mann Theatre, 136-140 Chalmers St, Surry Hills.

Singer-actor RJ Rosales leads the cast assembled by stage director Armando Reyes.

This one-act play, staged to commemorate the Dr Jose Rizal’s 149th birth anniversary, is about the hero’s childhood days and some significant events prior to his execution by a firing squad by the Spaniards.

Other members of the cast are Kate Roc Andres, Sally Anolin-Clark, Marilyn Mendez and Belen Mendoza (alternating as Dona Teodora), Manny Diel, Elijah Merjudio, Marcke De Vera, Ala Paredes, Isajane Noble, Angelo Refuerzo, Daniel Aguilar, Tom Merjudio, Bob Mendoza, Ross Aguilar, Danny Rosales, Antonio ‘Moses’ Gonzalez, Gerry Musa, Benny Chan, Isabelle Montillano, Reianne Urqueza, Arianne Milan, Jaime Sotelo, Moses Petersen and Elijah Abella.

To provide vocal rendition during the performances are Rachel Zarate and Jura Lassiter. Solo violinist is Louella Macalma.

Artistic and production team is composed of Albert Dimarucut, Belen Mendoza, Albert Prias, Claudio Javellana, Charles Chan, Neria Soliman, Josie Musa, Evelyn Zaragoza and Louisa Tagudin.

Meanwhile, last 17 April cast members paid respect to the memory of the Philippines’ national hero by visiting his bust monument at Plaza Iberia near Central Station in Sydney and the one in Ashfield Park.

Rizal stage play takes form

The cast of late Leonor Orosa Goquinco’s one-act stage play, Her son, Jose Rizal, went into rehearsals in earnest yesterday at a makeshift stage in Hiyas Ng Bayan child care centre, Mount Pritchard southwest of Sydney [...]

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