Asian Theater (Philippines)

Question 1

True or False: Theater in the prehistoric Philippines was in the form of indigenous rituals, verbal battles or games, songs, and dances to praise gods.

Answer 1

True. Prehistoric dramas consisted of three (3) elements: myth, mimesis, and spectacle.

Question 2

These rituals mostly dramatized primitive rituals and epic poetry about deities and mythical legends.

Answer 2

Mimetic rituals. It is also considered “proto-dramas”.

Question 3

The most important dance among most Philippine tribes

Answer 3

war dance

Question 4

True of False: The war dance
of the Mansaka of Davao del Norte imitates the
movements of model warriors called bagani, as the
latter fight with spears, bolo, and shields.

Answer 4

True

Question 5

True or False: Mimetic too are some of the
customs associated with
birth
among the ethnic communities.

Answer 5

False. Mimetic too are some of the
customs associated with
courtship, marriage, and death
among the ethnic communities.

Question 6

Courtship customs:

Cebuano : balitaw :: Tagalog : ________

Answer 6

pamanhikan.

Of
the courtship customs, the most
common is the debate between a
male and a female, which may
employ verse, song, and dance.

Question 7

Of all the plays of the Spanish era, the most important is

the ________.

Answer 7

Komedya

Question 7

Of all the plays of the Spanish era, the most important is

the ________.

Answer 7

Komedya

Question 7

Of all the plays of the Spanish era, the most important is

the ________.

Answer 7

Komedya

Question 8

It takes from 3 to 15 hours
and several sessions to perform, usually
2-3 days. It includes elaborate marches, lengthy
choreographed fighting between
individuals and/or armies, and magical
artifices.

Answer 8

Komedya

Question 9

Types of Komedya

Answer 9

1. secular- which concentrates on
   epic stories of love, honor, and
   vengeance.
2. religious- which narrates the
   lives of patron saints.

Question 9

Types of Komedya

Answer 9

1. secular- which concentrates on
   epic stories of love, honor, and
   vengeance.
2. religious- which narrates the
   lives of patron saints.

Question 10

Also known as the pasion y muerte
(passion and death); Staged commercially or
as community activity during Lent and often
for eight consecutive nights during Holy
Week.

Answer 10

Sinakulo

Question 11

__________ is the playlets or short dramatization
that embellish the Catholic liturgy or dramatize more
fully the events narrated by that liturgy, especially
Christ’s birth, passion, death, and resurrection.

Answer 11

Didactic

Question 12

________ is dramatized through a street
procession the search by the Virgin Mary and Saint
Joseph for an inn in Bethlehem on Christmas Eve.

Answer 12

Panunuluyan

Question 13

________ are a group of males and females in Bicol
in colorful costumes dancing and singing Spanish
and native Christmas songs in front of different
houses where they are given food and alms.

Answer 13

Pastores

Question 14

_______ reenact episodes in search for and

adoration of the infant Jesus by the Three Kings.

Answer 14

Tatlong Hari

Question 15

_______ features the blessing of the
palms and reenacts Christ’s triumphal entry into
Jerusalem on Palm Sunday.
Via crucis (way of the cross)

Answer 15

Osana (hosanna)

Question 16

_______ the procession of the
image of the Nazareno which stops at 14 stations
of the Cross.

Answer 16

Via crucis (way of the cross)

Question 17

__________ reenacts the Last Supper in an
actual dinner eaten by the priest and 12 men
playing the apostles.

Answer 17

Huling Hapunan

Question 18

__________ features a lifesize image of Christ
hanging on the cross, which moves its head each
time one of the seven last words is spoken during
the three hours before Christ’s death at 3 P.M. on
Good Friday.

Answer 18

Siete palabras

Question 19

__________ dramatizes the meeting of the Risen
Christ and the Virgin on Easter Sunday morning in
dance and song.

Answer 19

Salubong

Question 20

________ shows the burning of the effigy of the

traitor Iscariot on the morning of Eastern Sunday.

Answer 20

Hudas

Question 21

______ enacts the story of the
Roman soldier, Longhino, who while guarding the
tomb of Christ witnesses the Resurrection.

Answer 21

Moryonan/Moriones

Question 22

The major genre of playlets performed in honor of
patron saints; depicts the conflict between Christians and
Moors. It is also the most ancient playlet that we have.

Answer 22

moros y cristianos or moro-moro

Question 23

a form of musical theater that combines
spoken word and song that celebrates various
Catholic liturgical feasts.

Answer 23

Zarzuela/Sarsuwela. It focuses on a love story between
members of the upper classes, which is spiced up with
comic love episodes between servants.

Question 24

The first zarzuela introduced in the

country in late 1878 or early 1879 by Francisco Asenjo Barbieri.

Answer 24

Jugar Con Fuego

Question 25

A sarsuwela about the love between a pretty young flower girl, Angelita, and a young handsome law
student, Cipriano.

Answer 25

Dalagang Bukid (1917)

Question 26

a play in verse and/or prose and usually in
one act. Like the sarsuwela, it often revolves on an
aspect of Filipino contemporary life like divorce,
gambling, and other social vices, usually in the
framework of a love story.

Answer 26

Drama

Question 27

a type of drama which aims to make

people cry

Answer 27

drama romantiko/ melodrama

Question 28

The most popular entertainment in Manila during the Japanese occupation

Answer 28

bodabil

Question 29

Realism in contemporary modern theater

follows two tendencies:

Answer 29

1. psychological which focuses on the
   problems of individuals;
2. social which situates and roots
   individual problems within the larger
   framework of a class society.

Question 30

led in the creation of a people’s theater all

over the country.

Answer 30

Philippine Educational Theater

Association (PETA).

Question 31

Employed in order to
relate historical events or persons to the
present.

Answer 31

documentary style

Question 32

With touches of absurdism is
evident in Ang Sistema ni Propesor Tuko,
1982, which satirizes authoritarianism in the
classroom and in society.

Answer 32

Brechtian style

Question 33

Inexpensive, portable, and short

plays were evolved for symposia or rallies.

Answer 33

Tula-dula

Question 34

to convey the problems of
Mindanao; militarization, landlordism,
exploitation, land grabbing, etc.

Answer 34

use of ethnic arts

Question 34

to convey the problems of
Mindanao; militarization, landlordism,
exploitation, land grabbing, etc.

Answer 34

use of ethnic arts