ABSTRACT
MALOU JACOB Stage Directors Anton Juan and Nonon Padilla have dominated Philippine
theatre with their extraordinary creative work for decades, season after season
up to the present. Juan, who is with the 26 year old Dulaang University Players,
went to the Centre Universitaire International de Formation et des Recherches
Dramatiques in Nancy for higher studies in theatre under Michelle
Kokossowski, Augusto Boal, Radu Penciulescu (Grotowsky School), Dario Fo,
and Donatello Sartori. He also studied Butoh with Kazuo Ohno, and Noh
Theatre at the Kita School under Takabayashi Sensei. His memorable
productions include: Medea, Bacchae, The Maids, Miss Julie, Marat/Sade, Waiting
for Godot, Yerma and Death in the Form of a Rose.
