Tropical Baroque: Four Manileño Theatricals
Edition: First printing in new size
Publisher: Anvil Publishing
Published: 2024
Place of publication: Mandaluyong City, Philippines
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 226
ISBN-13: 9789712738487
Copyright date: 2018
Description: *Tropical Baroque: Four Manileño Theatricals* celebrates the depth and the vibrancy of National Artist for Literature Nick Joaquin's dramatic output.

Set in old Manila, *A Portrait of the Artist as Filipino* revolves around two spinster sisters, Paula and Candida Marasigan, who fight for all the things precious to their family. This play has gone to be adapted as a major motion picture.

In *Tatarin*, Doña Lupe stands firm on her ideas on feminism. She joins the three-day fertility ritual where women wildly dance around the balite tree, giving her the perfect opportunity to boldly demand respect and admiration from her husband, Don Paeng.

In *Fathers and Sons*, Bessie fights back against the shadows cast by her past as an abandoned child sold and bought into the life of prostitution.

*The Beatas* illustrates modern views and actions of Antonia Ezguerra and Sebastiana de Santa Maria, along with their fellow beatas, as they stand their ground despite the challenge from the patriarchy of the Holy Church to shut down the first beaterio in Manila.
Table of contents: label: Introduction
title: viii; label: A Portrait of the Artist as Filipino
title: An Elegy in Three Scenes
pagenum: 1; label: Tatarin
title: A Witches' Sabbath in Three Acts
pagenum: 67; label: Fathers and Sons
title: A Melodrama in  Three Reels
pagenum: 105; label: The Beatas
title: A Hymn in Three Stanzas
pagenum: 157