INFORMAL THEME 7, BLOG 7

Ibong Adarna: A Play to Watch for

            Ibong Adarna was a well known legend of a beautiful bird and the rescue of Don Juan. The beautiful bird was said to have a set of beautiful feathers and have a melodic voice that can make anyone sleep, its wastes can also turn someone into stone. While Don Juan, the youngest among the princes of Berbanya. He lives in the kingdom of Berbanya in which there is full of happiness and love. And most of all, he’s the one who summons the Ibong Adarna to the king.

            Having all of these in our minds, I together with the CNSHS students visited the Ayong Maliksi Stadium to watch the play “Ibong Adarna” by Gantimpala Productions. The play was nice but the venue does not fit the event making a degrade in the quality of the play. The lights and music are also good. The musicians are excellent in playing the gongs and other native instruments. I also like the way the play shifted from scene to scene; there are dance movements or other lively presentations. I f there is one thing that no one would like is their accommodation. It took us a long time of waiting before we are accommodated inside the stadium.In that long time of waiting, we are under the sun plus a swampy and smelly leakage from the building. The students/ participants of the play were also stuck in a crowd which might cause a stampede.

            Despite of all the casualties that happened, good thing that the play itself was not affected; because the play is the one which replenishes us after that terrible experience. But then, as students, we still appreciate the effort that they had exerted, at least we were quite amazed that the play was good and thankful that we are lucky enough to be included in those schools which is accommodated inside♥