Tag: ateneo
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Searching for José Rizal the Theater Actor
José Rizal wrote plays and texts for school presentations. He also attended theatrical productions and recorded his opinions of them. No known source identifies him as a performer in a named dramatic role. Documenting an acting role requires a production, date, character, and source naming Rizal as the performer. His biographies contain extensive evidence of…
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Félix Pardo de Tavera y Gorricho (Manila, 1859 – Paris, 1932)
Erratum: This post previously included a photograph I identified as Trinidad Hermenegildo Pardo de Tavera (T.H.) and Felix Pardo de Tavera in their youth, sourced from Alfred W. McCoy’s Anarchy of Families (Manila: ADMU Press, 1994). The image in fact depicts a younger generation of Pardo de Taveras from the early 20th century. I am…
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Conversations in the Countryside
Countryside is the name of a rundown restaurant along Katipunan Extension in Quezon City. This place has since been demolished and replaced by a stripmall more befitting of the gentrified environs outside Ateneo campus. I mention this hole-in-the wall in relation to Professor Oscar Campomanes, as a testament to the impossible circumstances that gave birth…