Sisa Bilang Manlilikha: Final Run

An experimental performance built from the first The Sisa Prize, a writing prize for young Filipino women writers, Sisa Bilang Manlilikha (Sisa as Creator) is also the sixth variation on the character of Sisa, as reconfigured and reimagined by Carlo Paulo Pacolor from the archetypal character of the crazy woman in National Hero Jose Rizal’s novel Noli Me Tangere. The variations rethink, and re-engage in conversations about womanhood across Philippine history and local contexts, with this sixth variation drawing from the woman as creator in the present, and the push and pull between personal creative impulses and the roles she must fulfil, the performances she needs to put up, for the institutions and communities she is part of. 

Sisa Bilang Manlilikha, sisa sa ika-anim (Sisa as Creator, Sisa at the sixth), is by Carlo Paulo Pacolor and Katrina Stuart Santiago, performed by Serena Magiliw. 

This is the second and final ticketed run of the performance.