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SPRING AWAKENING

Honestly, I didn’t know what was going to b in this musical. I just wanted to watch because it was a musical and who doesn’t like musicals?

The thing is this is more that a musical it has context. Basically, this musical talks about how these group of teens are on their way dealing with their sexuality and suicide. 

I guess because of the conservative stage of the setting. Phallic stage for these teens came much later. We have the main character (Welda) who wants to know how babies are produced. We have Moritz and Melchior who are talking about Moritz’ wet dreams and how he yearns for a woman through his dreams. There was even one character who masturbated.

The musical also shows latency stage in which homosexual relationship begins with these two male characters who are friends and will eventually have sex on the set. 

The musical also showed genital stage which is present in Melchior, who I deemed to be the most mature character. He eventually realizes his attraction to Welda and eventually the two then get to the act. There was a part where Welda asked him to hit her and this turned Melchior into another person. I guess this is because his repressed sexual desire is trigger by such event.

Overall, this musical is amazing as it displays different characters in a different lights of the later psychosexual stages. 

1. Phallic Stage is seen in the naive Welda and Moritz who is now discovering their sexual identity

2. Latency stage is seen in the two men who are supposed to be friends but then got into a homosexual phase.

3. Genital stage is seen in Melchior, who is highly noted to be a very mature character, who discovers his hidden sexual desires

SC x blueREP Presents: Real Life Fairytales

Different lives, different stories. I walked inside the walls of Fine Arts Theater in Ateneo de Manila University. I felt the cold air brushing through my skin and heard the soft squeals of the excited audience. It was the evening of September 17 (Friday), and I was about to witness a fairytale – or so I thought. There were lights. There was music. And the show began. The Ateneo Blue Repertory…

This is the production of In The Heights I watched (though probably not this exact show unless I was off the side somewhere in the audience lol) 

It was really something else honestly

The Usnavi was spectacular, as was the Nina Rosario

I definitely cried my eyes out in this scene

Throwback to Lara Louise circa 2013. Yes, that’s me, on the piano being a puppet, flirting with Gordon Schwinn (who is also too gay to function). 

But damn, I miss the show. Back in 2013, this show taught me many things. To do what I love, to be selfish and follow my dreams, put my happiness first (for a change). In the years following this show, I gave up the things that I love to do for things I thought would make me happy (but didn’t). Now, here I am at a crossroads, and what a great reminder (from an old video, from an old show, an old life, no less) to pursue the things that are important to you, and to do it with courage. Not bad for my last show with blueREP. 

GRIDS conducted a Photoshop workshop with Ateneo Blue Repertory last August 14. The workshop gave a special attention to the program's pen tool to help the organization with their promotional materials.

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