The Egg Theater Co

Hatching Contemporary Filipino Productions

Late last 2014, a group of theater colleagues with more than 40 years of theater experience between them, discussed the possibility of forming a theater company that will concentrate on straight plays performed in the Filipino language with a vision to make it as commercially viable as musicales and English plays.

This possibility took form when they agreed to join the first Fringe Festival in Manila with a Filipino adaptation of Moliere’s The Learned Ladies entitled Maniacal. The positive reaction to the production prompted them to mount a re-run of Maniacal at the Opera Haus of the Philippine Opera Company.

Deciding on a name, the group chose Egg Theater Company. The noun egg, which means seed or origin and the verb egg, which means to incite or to goad, sparked off the company’s vision: to produce straight plays with a contemporary setting in the Filipino language using original materials, translations or adaptations of both modern and classic works geared to showcase the Filipino actor.

Partners: Kristine Balmes, Reynante Bustamante, Martha Comia, George de Jesus III, Mara Marasigan, Paolo O'Hara, Alvin Trono