Laro: An Updated Version of Everyone's Favorite Activity - Sex

If you haven't had sex for sometime, this play, Laro, will fill your quota for quite a bit - even if it just means you watch other people do it.

Yes, the play is gay-themed but don't be misled by that.

It is actually based on an 1897 play by a Jewish-Austrian dramatist named Arthur Schnitzler.

Yes, 1897! And if you see the play in it's current gay-themed modern day interpretation, you will blush at how people have openly talked and had sex in the 1890s until today.

There is also a 1950 Best Oscar-nominated version of the play.

In the version I watched last night,everything is updated to the age of the Internet. It was actually fun to watch the actors (I've seen some of them in other local plays) be game and just romp around the stage.

The actors talk about sex and they actually have sex (acting of course) so watch it with an open mind. It might give you a hint or two with what you can do with your husband or wife or partner after you watch the play.

I particularly like the handcuff scene, it looks sexy onstage but in real life, scary LOL! Just substitute it with a silk scarf, it feels better on the skin.

If you've had sexual experience as long as mine (straight or not) there are many scenes here that will make you laugh! Some, I agree with, some scenes, I find a bit off - (since when does one pontificate before sex). Just f**k!

This version by Floy Quintos is very racy by our standards but I've seen and experienced racier stuff than this (maybe anyone who has been to Europe and sampled the scene there can attest to that).

As I said, if you haven't had a boy (or a man) touch you for sometime, watch this, have fun, and stifle your giggles.

Alpha Kappa Omega AKO - Tanghalang Ateneo Updates the Classic Batch '81 Film

I think it is a very courageous and timely choice for the Tanghalang Ateneo to stage AKO - Alpha Kappa Omega - an adaptation of the highly acclaimed fraternity movie Batch 81 by Mike de Leon.

I only saw the movie as a university student, and just like the audiences before me, I was blown away by its searing depiction of campus fraternity violence. It's one of the best movies ever made by a Filipino - and when it was released - it cannot be helped but to compare what was happening onscreen to the way power was wielded by the Marcoses during martial law.

The play adaptation does not stray from the original thematically - however, the TA has made this one, more contemporary - dealing more with current issues and completely updating how college kids socialize nowadays.

However, the depiction of the mindless violence and the threshing out of the themes of male aggression and toxic masculinity is still there - and are more defined now than 30 years ago when such level of awareness was not that heightened.

The play was pretty entertaining with the lives of the five main plebes given almost equal treatment in terms of storytelling.

Good thing also that like the movie, the play does not come across as preachy, although there were two scenes, I think, where the faculty members were discussing what they could've done to prevent the violence.

However, I think those scenes were necessary since it helps the audience (in this case, mainly college students) process the scenes that just happened and in a way, indicts the adults for being kunsentidor in this cycle of violence.