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Breathing new life to the Ibalong epic

  By JOSEPH CORTES AN epic tells the aspirations of a people: where they come from, what they are, and what they hope to be. At times of hardship and despair, retelling the people’s glorious past in the form of an epic, and not its history, serves to rally the masses to gather together and

Breathing new life to the Ibalong epic

Romancing Mayon and death in Cagsawa

 By PABLO A. TARIMAN  THINGS Bicol are once again in the news because its life and lore are once again recalled in Tanghalang Pilipino’s  musical epic “Ibalong”  opening February 8 until March 3 with a formidable cast that include Jenine Desiderio of Miss Saigon fame. The colorful Ibalong epic managed to survive by oral tradition

Romancing Mayon and death in Cagsawa