PAPET PASYON 2025

PRESENTED BY:

The Cultural Center of the Philippines and

Teatrong Mulat ng Pilipinas

DATE/ TIME/ VENUE:

April 6, 2025 | 2:30 pm and 6:00 pm

Tanghalang Ignacio Gimenez (CCP Black Box Theater)

DESCRIPTION:

Papet Pasyon, first presented at the CCP in 1985, returns to the CCP stage in April, in time for the Holy Week. Written by National Artist for Theater, Amelia Lapeña-Bonifacio, Papet Pasyon is the Philippines’ first puppet passion play for children and Teatrong Mulat’s longest-running play. The one-hour performance narrates the life, passion, and death of Jesus Christ. It has been the vow of Teatrong Mulat to perform Papet Pasyon for the young and young-at-heart.

TICKET INFORMATION:

FREE ADMISSION

REGISTER HERE: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/papet-pasyon-2025-tickets-1291005053869?aff=oddtdtcreator

 ABOUT TEATRONG MULAT NG PILIPINAS

In 1977, Professor Amelia Lapeña-Bonifacio founded Teatrong Mulat ng Pilipinas. “Mulat” means to open, awaken; hence a theater to awaken the children to the beauty and richness of Philippine culture and still unfamiliar Asian cultures. Inspired by the Indonesian wayang golek (rod puppet) and wayang kulit (shadow puppet) and Japanese bunraku (puppet manipulated by three puppeteers), MULAT has pioneered in the creation of a Philippine puppet. It has presented children’s plays based on Philippine and Asian folktales. The popular ones include Ang Paghuhukom (The Trial premiered in 1980), Papet Pasyon (The Passion of Jesus Christ in Puppetry, 1985), Dalawang Bayani (Two Heroes, 1996), Ang Pagong at ang Tsonggo (The Turtle and the Monkey, 1977), and Sita & Rama: Papet Ramayana (Sita & Rama: Puppet Ramayana, 2004).

In 2006, the Amelia Lapeña-Bonifacio Papet Teatro-Museo, the puppet theater museum in the country was established with assistance from former Presidents Fidel V. Ramos and Joseph Estrada. MULAT has participated in various international and national puppet festivals, seminar-workshops and conferences, the most recent of which was a puppet presentation during the Conference Annual Philippine Studies Conference 2019 at SOAS, University of London. In 2014, it conducted workshops for day care workers affected by Typhoon Yolanda (Haiyan) under the auspices of UNICEF as well as online puppet workshops for children with special needs and barangay health care workers in cooperation with the HELP Learning Center Foundation, from 2021 to 2024 in Naga, Camarines Sur.