“Na-last-song syndrome ako!’ I laughed to my friend Lea, an artist with the Philippine Educational Theatre Association , after watching the musical ‘Rak of Aegis’ online. Its theme song wafted around me for two whole days - ‘Eto akoooo, basang basa sa ulan, walang masisilungan, walang malalapitan. . .’
But it was another kind of muck that Venizia’s floods immersed my thoughts in: COVID-19 and the question of how we human beings are going to live from hereon. Here are four takeaways from the 2021 online run of ‘Rak of Aegis’: At the top of the list is COVID-19, but also climate change and plastics pollution, all of which are the impact of human activity - and how human beings live like the planet exists for them to conquer, instead of co-habitating in it with other living things. Like the flood around Venizia, COVID-19 and other ills exempt no one.
The floods as the musical’s setting provide context that is worth pressing the ‘rewind button for. The year 2014, when ‘Rak of Aegis’ first opened, was not long after Typhoon Haiyan, one of the strongest tropical cyclones ever recorded with winds of over 313 kilometers per hour, roared through the Philippines in November 2013. Some 6,300 people died.
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