An Open Rehearsal Takes Center Stage in ‘Within and Without End’ this March
Langgam Performance Troupe (LPT) returns for its 11th year with Within and Without End (WAWE), a meta-devised work that reflects on the craft of acting and performance. It is the first part of a trilogy exploring one’s relationship with the theater machine.
A performance about performers within performers, Within and Without End opens the trilogy by engaging with the metaphysical nature and reality of performance through reflection, deconstruction, and reimagination. Framed as an open rehearsal, audience members are invited to witness the live, revealing, and playful process of a performer’s transformation, complete with actors’ warm-ups, improv exercises, exchanges of ideas, and run-throughs that are occasionally interrupted by notes from the director and dramaturg.
No two open rehearsals are the same. Through structured improvisation, Within and Without End is a piece that also shapeshifts: not entirely loose, but open enough to arrive at different outcomes with each and every open rehearsal, further emphasising the inherent ephemerality of performance.
The show was developed over two years by Opaline Santos, Serena Magiliw, and the late Joel Garcia, who will join the performance through his journal. It is directed by Jenny Logico-Cruz, with dramaturgy by Blonski Cruz, who serve as LPT’s artistic director and company manager, respectively.
WAWE runs on March 13 (8 PM) and March 14 (3 PM and 7 PM), followed by a free Artist Talk on March 15 (1 PM) at 99 Mahiyain corner Madasalin St., Sikatuna Village, Quezon City. Tickets are available for P800 until March 6 and P1,000 thereafter.
Interested audiences may register through the group’s Google Form. Early registration is encouraged, as space is limited. The open rehearsal may require audience members to remove their shoes and move around the space under the guidance of the creative team. Some aspects of the performance contain nudity.
Langgam Performance Troupe (LPT) is a contemporary performance company focused on experimental, process-based, practice-as-research works.
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