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The family is the foundation of a nation. Playwright, translator, and director Guelan Varela-Luarca's three plays in Natal/National echo an undeniable truth: nationhood is rooted in family. In these three plays, the intersections of family dynamics and nation-building take center stage. Dogsblood, Winner, Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards, First Prize, Full-Length Play, 2023 After executing a 70-year-old lady for alleged drug use, an officer adopts the eighteen dogs she left behind. Corridors, Winner, Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards, First Prize, Full-Length Play and Hall of Fame, 2024 Following her father's death, Anj returns home where her estranged family, led by their National Artist matriarch, falls into the same vicious cycle--feeding the very rot their ancestral home nurtures. 3 Upuan Speaking in hypotheticals and regrets, sibligs Jers, Jack, and Jai make sense of time and existence amidst grief and loss.

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""Seen from the eyes of a child wondering what lies between the eyes of mad dogs, [Dogsblood] is a phantasmagoric horror of how a society torn between dominant political power and subjugated beasts ends up mangled by the fangs of fascists, just like how Dionysus and the rebel playwright Euripedes got torn to human shreds by dogs."" --Anton Juan, PhD., playrwright, actor, and director ""Corridors is simultaneously horrific and entirely plausible, so skillful is its writing. It belongs to the lineage of dark gothic tales that includes the fiction of Dahne Du Maurier and Edgar Allan Poe, movies like Mike de Leaon's Kisapmata and JA Bayona's The Orphanage--but delivered with an entirely 21st-century sucker punch. Riveting!"" --Bart Guingona, theater director and actor

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