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MANILA -- Whether you're in quarantine in New York City or somewhere on New York Street in Cubao, Quezon City, there's no more excuse to miss Virgin Labfest 2020, the annual festival of untried, unstaged and untested plays.

The live performances of all 10 featured plays with talkbacks can be watched from June 10 to 14 and from June 21 to 28. But it's not like watching a movie on Netflix. In the two weeks mentioned, the live staging of a particular play will be made available for 24 hours only. The good news is, they're all free to the public.

Anicoche is not a "virgin" at the Labfest and the CCP. In the past, he has directed several plays for the Labfest, most notable of which was playwright Dingdong Novenario's "Kafatiran." Staged in 2011 and 2012, it is a historical one-act play about male gay members of the Katipunan, the revolutionary underground movement founded by Andres Bonifacio to topple the Spanish rulers.

"As a theater educator, being invited to lead a 16-year old festival is a big opportunity to expand the possibilities of text-based theater-making, deepen conversations about theater and society and bring in present-day sensibilities. VLF has provided me a platform in my early years as a director to materialize vision from page to stage," Anicoche added.

"Resilience and unbelievably long patience what we exchange with each other and this keeps us going," he added. "For VLF 2020, safety and well-being are our main concern. Since the start of pandemic, we created protocols and codes. Code Red is when we are left working in our own houses and will never get the chance to be in one place," Anicoche continued.

"We are in a very difficult period in our lives and as long as we secured that artists and staff are compensated and supported well by the CCP, it is time to think about our audiences and also rethink ways of engagement in this new platform that we are exploring," said Anicoche. As confirmed to ABS-CBN News by Rody Vera, who has the sole honor of reading and screening all entries for the festival since 2004, among the 10 featured works this year, six are from virgin playwrights.

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