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RIZAL'S SWEET STRANGER: Untold Stories of Josephine Bracken

9/30/2011

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One hundred fifty years ago, Dr. Jose Rizal was born in the Islands of the Philippines. He was a multifaceted intellectual, an award winning poet and writer, a polyglot, a scientist, a doctor of medicine specializing in ophthalmology. But of all his passions and pursuits, the national hero of the Philippines is best remembered in history, first, as a political activist whose writings inspired the Philippine revolution which ultimately led to his martyrdom by Spanish colonial authorities, and second, as a romantic who had many equally-statured loves but found his heart in the bosom of a common woman, an orphan who was rumored to be a whore and allegedly a spy for the Spanish friars.

As the highlight of the year-long celebration of Dr. Rizal's 150th birthday, Samasama Project and CIRCA-Pintig present a world class musical showing a glimpse of his personal life with his foreign (Irish Hong Kong) born wife, Josephine Bracken, with Rizal’s Sweet Stranger: Untold Stories of Josephine Bracken the Musical a contemporary musical born of a collaborative montage of the 2009 Carlos Palanca Award Winner for a Full-length Play, Miss Dulce Extranjera, by Anril P. Tiatco as well as Isagani Cruz’s Josephine and extrapolations of other historical texts and visual documents. Set to music by Samasama Project’s very own Baron Lloyd Cabalona, music by Dr. Cleofe Guangko Casambre and William Elvin Manzano, and concept and direction by Dr. Anton Juan, Jr.

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Jose Rizal

Rizal (June 19, 1861 – December 30, 1896), was a Filipino polymath, patriot and advocate of reform in the Philippines during the Spanish colonial period. His execution by the Spanish on December 30, 1896, a date commemorated annually as "Rizal Day," is believed to have sparked the Filipinos fight for freedom from the Spaniards.  Rizal was born to a rich family in Calamba, Laguna. He was the seventh of eleven children. He went to the Ateneo Municipal de Manila, earning a Bachelor of Arts, and later enrolled in medicine at the University of Santo Tomas. He later studied at the Universidad Central de Madrid in Madrid, Spain, earning a Licentiate in Medicine. He also attended the University of Paris and earned a second doctorate at the University of Heidelberg.

-GMA News

Concept and Direction by Dr. Anton Juan 
Dramatic Text by Dr. Anton Juan with collaborative texts from Anril Tiatco and Dr. Isagani Cruz
Lyrics by Dr. Anton Juan and William Manzano 
Music by Dr. Cleofe Guangko Casambre and William Manzano 
Music Direction by Baron Lloyd Cabalona 
Assistant Direction by Ginger Leopoldo 
Production Design by Giau Truong 
Stage Management by Angelica Atian
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