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Flipping The Script: Gabriela Silang’S Legacy Through Stagecraft, Leeann Francisco
Flipping The Script: Gabriela Silang’S Legacy Through Stagecraft, Leeann Francisco
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Flipping the Script: Gabriela Silang’s Legacy through Stagecraft is a chronicle of the scriptwriting and staging process for Bannuar, a historical adaptation about the life of Gabriela Silang (1731-1763) produced by Dominican University of California’s (DUC) Filipino student club (Kapamilya) for their annual Pilipino Cultural Night (PCN). The 9th annual show was scheduled for April 5, 2020. Due to the limitations of stagecraft, implications of COVID-19, and shelter-in-place orders, the scriptwriters made executive decisions on what to omit or adapt to create a well-rounded script.
In this chronicle, scriptwriters’ choices in character development and musical elements in the show are …