Sir Anril Pineda Tiatco

Biographic Data

ID4881760
NAMESir Anril Pineda Tiatco
GIVEN NAMESSir Anril Pineda
FAMILY NAMETiatco
SIGNATURETIATCO S A P
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of the Philippines Diliman
ORCID0000-0002-8333-5708
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS10
TOTAL CITATIONS6
AUTHOR COUNT10
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2009
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2022
H-INDEX2

  • Philippine Catholic Festivals during the Covid-19 Pandemic

    Sir Anril Pineda TiatcoARTICLEContemporary Theatre Review2022

    On 16 March 2020, then Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte imposed the Enhanced Community Quarantine putting the main island of Luzon – where Manila, the National Capital Region, is located – on a total lockdown to protect the spread of COVID-19. The lockdown restricted mobility, social gatherings were prohibited, and everyone was mandated to stay inside their homes. Moreover, there was a temporary closure of what were considered as non-essentia…

  • The Philippine Performance Archive on Cultural Performances

    Open AccessSir Anril Pineda Tiatco, Bryan Levina Viray et al.CHAPTERDigital Humanities and New Ways…2019

  • The Palo-Palo in Batanes, Philippines

    Sir Anril Pineda Tiatco, Madilene B Landicho et al.ARTICLEAsian Theatre Journal2018References: 2

    This essay is a preliminary discussion of the palo-palo, a cultural performance of the Ivatan community in the Batanes group of islands in northernmost Philippines where performers strike "opponents's" sticks to reenact a battle of two opposing camps. The first part is a descriptive narrative of the palo-palo performance. The second part is a preliminary analysis and theorization of the palo-palo's origin by arguing that the performance could hav…

  • Performing Like a Concert King or a Queen

    Open AccessSir Anril Pineda TiatcoCHAPTERPalgrave Handbook of Musical…2017

    A number of companies have become the gatekeepers of the Original Filipino Musical (OFM), such as Trumpets, Spotlight Artists Center, and Musical Theatre Philippines. These companies are strongly influenced by the mega-musical genre, and draw on a range of Filipino source material, including a gay comic book superhero (ZsaZsa Zeturnah, ze Muzical), an eighteenth-century Philippine comedia (Orosman at Zafira), and a novel by the nineteenth-century…

  • Performing theBaklainThe Care Divas

    Anril Pineda Tiatco, Sir Anril Pineda TiatcoARTICLEJournal of Homosexuality2015Cited by: 2References: 16

    This essay is a close reading of The Care Divas, a Filipino musical revolving around the struggle of five Filipino caregivers in Israel who also struggle with their sexual identities as bakla (Filipino homosexual). The analysis is both an affirmation and a critique of the performance. In the affirmation, the musical is argued to present a social reality that is intended for and in need of interrogation: the Filipino bakla. The musical implicitly …

  • The Philippine Komedya and the Recuperation of the Cosmopolitan

    Sir Anril Pineda Tiatco, Anril P TiatcoARTICLEModern Drama2014References: 9

    This article critiques the komedya vis-à-vis its institutionalization as national theatre form and proposes a cosmopolitan alternative in the critique. It argues that the imposition of a nationalist perspective in the reading the form falls into the trap of territoriality and “othering” because of its Roman Catholic and Tagalog-centric orientations. The cosmopolitan critique is necessary because it embodies a middle-path alternative to the essent…

  • The Silenced Body of The Silent Soprano

    Anril Pineda Tiatco, Sir Anril Pineda TiatcoARTICLEAsian Theatre Journal2013References: 4

    This essay interrogates the traditionally gendered Filipino female domestic helper vis-à-vis her “constructed” role in transnational relations and the idea of globalization represented in the 2007–2008 musical The Silent Soprano . Through this musical, the essay explores how globalization and transnational relations are experienced and mediated on the stage of the developing city of Manila, which claims to be a cosmopolitan one. It is posited tha…

  • Performing the Nation Onstage

    Anril Pineda Tiatco, Sir Anril Pineda Tiatco et al.ARTICLEAsian Theatre Journal2010Cited by: 2

    This report is a descriptive narrative of the events during the University of the Philippines (UP) Sarsuwela Festival 2009. The centerpiece of the festival was the series of sarsuwela performances staged in February. The sarsuwela, a Philippine traditional theatre form, served as a venue to express confined and unexpressed emotions against the colonial masters and has been and still is appreciated by Filipinos from all walks of life. Toward the e…

  • Libad nang Apung Iru and Pamamaku king Krus

    Sir Anril Pineda Tiatco, Anril P TiatcoARTICLETDR/The Drama Review2010References: 2

    Present-day performances of two Catholic rituals/cultural spectacles in Pampanga, the fluvial parade in Apalit and the nailing ritual in Cutud, reveal some ambivalence toward the very Christian-Catholic religion that is the basis of the rituals

  • Postscript to University of the Philippines Komedya Fiesta 2008

    Sir Anril Pineda TiatcoARTICLEAsian Theatre Journal2009Cited by: 2References: 2

    This report documents the activities of the Komedya Fiesta 2008 and discusses how scholars and others have cited komedya as a national theatre for the Philippines, but argues why this form cannot serve as a national theatre because of its Roman Catholic religious orientation