Tiyo Vanya (Uncle Vanya), Anton Chekhov, 1976 Teatro Pilipino also held annual summer workshops in acting, directing and stage management. These productions were synchronized with the scholar calendar. When it transferred to the Metropolitan Theater in 1986, Teatro produced one major production at the MET Main Theater in its season, and a touring production. As resident theater company of CCP, Teatro produced six plays per season, each with a run of eight performances at the CCP Little Theater (now a Tanghalang Aurelio V. Dedicated to producing world classics in translation as well as notable Filipino plays, it aimed to promote the cultural development of the youth and of the Filipino language. It closed in February 1992, after the death of its leading actor, Ella Luansing. It served as CCP resident company until 1986. Tolentino), 197 1 Prinsipe Baldovino(Prince Baldwin), 1971 Ang Kiri (The Flirt), 1974 Bayan-bayanan (Little Country), 19.Īfter a 1975 pilot season of two plays sponsored by the Department of Public Information and the Cultural Center of the Philippines, Teatro Pilipino was founded in 1976 by director-actor Rolando Tinio, who became its artistic director. Tinio went on to direct traditional and modem plays and operas like: Dularawan: Salakot na Ginto (Image Play: The Golden Salakot), 1969, which inaugurated the Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP) The Merry Widow, 1969 The Onyx Wolf, which inaugurated the CCP Little Theater (now Tanghalang Aurelio V. Murder in the Cathedral, 1966 and the first revival of Precioso Palma 's Sarswela, Paglipas ng Dilim (After the Darkness), 1969, all with Ateneo student actors. He first attracted attention with his experimental productions, such as Oedipus Rex, 1960 the Oresteia, 1962 Macbeth, 1963. He is remembered as an innovative and imaginative director.
The first two significantly influenced the return of Philippine theater to the vernacular. Tinio's achievement in drama includes masterful translations into Tagalog of major works of the Western theater, starting with Laruang Kristal(Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie ) and Pahimakas sa Isang Ahente(Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman), 1966 and Paghihintay Kay Godo (Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot) and August Strindberg's Miss Julie, 1967. He first wrote poetry in English, but after his return from the United States, returned to the language of his roots, the Tagalog in which are written his three collections: Sitsit sa Kulilig (Whistling at Cicadas), 1972 Dunung-dunungan (Pedantry), 1975 Kristal na Uniberso (Crystal Universe), 1989 and Trick of Mirrors, 1993.
He taught English, Filipino, and theater arts courses at the Ateneo de Manila University, 1958-1975, where he headed the English Department, and later the Department of Filipino. He finished a non-degree course in theater arts through a British Council scholarship grant at Bristol University in 1968. He obtained a bachelor of philosophy degree at the University of Santo Tomas in 1955 and a master in fine arts degree in creative writing from the State University of Iowa in 1958. He finished primary education at the Lakandula Elementary School in Tondo, 1948, and secondary school at the Letran High School, 1951.
Tinio married actor Ella Luansing, and they have two children, one of whom, Victoria, is also an actor. Tinio was born in Gagalangin, Tondo, Manila but has roots in Nueva Ecija, from where came his parents Dominador Tinio and Marciana Santos. Born: March 5, 1937, Gagalangin, Tondo, Manila
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