Date of Publication
8-10-2026
Document Type
Master's Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Arts in Literary, Cultural and Performance Studies
Subject Categories
Theatre and Performance Studies
College
College of Liberal Arts
Department/Unit
Literature, Department of
Thesis Advisor
Jazmin Badong Llana
Defense Panel Chair
Antonette Talaue-Arogo
Defense Panel Member
Kathrine D. Ojano
Vladimeir B. Gonzales
Abstract (English)
This thesis conceptualizes and practices Tidal Theater through the co-creation of an ecocritical performance with Teatro ni Juan, a community theater group based in Marikina City. Responding to Marikina’s recurring flooding, ecological vulnerability, and community-based cultural production, it examines how theater-making is shaped by ecological precarity, communal labor, and more-than-human collaboration through Kamau Brathwaite’s tidalectics, Rosi Braidotti’s posthumanism, ecocritical performance, Philippine performance studies, community theater practice, Jazmin Llana’s tilted thinking, and Anril Tiatco’s framework of panata, pagtitipon, and pagdiriwang. Using creative-critical practice-as-research, supported by reflexive practitioner inquiry and archival, dramaturgical, and performance analysis, the study examines selected Teatro ni Juan works as precedent cases and documents the co-creation of Hapeelan, Wasak, and Karbon. The findings identify tidal qualities in TNJ’s works through political immersion, temporary gathering, material ecology, audience proximity, and resurfacing local memory, while the co-creation process reveals how performance-making moves through interruption, ethical hesitation, rehearsal difficulty, AI-assisted prompting, ecological imagination, and documented performance conditions. The study proposes four tidal currents as the conceptual and creative structure of Tidal Theater: Paghinga as pause and listening; Pagtitipon as gathering; Paglunod as engagement with crisis and uncertainty; and Pag-ahon as resurfacing, revision, and renewed relation. Beyond flood or disaster imagery, Tidal Theater names a community-based, ecocritical, posthuman, and creative-critical practice through which theater responds to crisis through memory, shared labor, embodied practice, and creative survival.
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Abstract (Filipino)
Kinokonseptuwalisa at isinasagawa ng tesis na ito ang Tidal Theater sa pamamagitan ng co-creation ng isang ekokritikal na pagtatanghal kasama ang Teatro ni Juan, isang dulaang pangkomunidad na nakabase sa lungsod ng Marikina. Bilang tugon sa paulit-ulit na pagbaha sa Marikina, vulnerabilidad ekolohikal, at produksiyong pangkultural, sinusuri nito kung paano hinuhubog ang paglikha ng teatro ng ekolohikal na panganib at kawan-katiyakan, sama-samang paggawa, at pakikipagtulungan sa higit-sa-tao sa pamamagitan ng tidalectics ni Kamau Brathwaite, posthumanism ni Rosi Braidotti, ekokritikal na pagtatanghal, mga pag-aaral sa pagtatanghal sa Pilipinas, praktika ng dulaang pangkomunidad, tilted thinking ni Jazmin Llana, at balangkas ni Anril Tiatco ng panata, pagtitipon, at pagdiriwang. Gamit ang creative-critical practice-as-research, na sinusuportahan ng mapagnilay na pagtatanong ng practitioner at pagsusuring arkibal, dramaturhikal, at pangtanghal, sinusuri ng pag-aaral ang mga piling akda ng Teatro ni Juan bilang mga precedent cases at itinatala ang co-creation ng Hapeelan, Wasak, at Karbon. Tinutukoy ng mga resulta ang mga katangiang tidal sa mga akda ng TNJ sa pamamagitan ng pampolitikang pakikilahok, pansamantalang pagtitipon, ekolohiyang materyal, proximidad sa pagitan ng tagapanood at tagatanghal, at muling paglitaw ng lokal na alaala, habang inilalantad naman ng proseso ng co-creation kung paano umuusad ang paglikha ng pagtatanghal sa pamamagitan ng pagkaantala, etikal na pag-aalinlangan, kahirapan sa pagrerehearse, AI-assisted prompting, imahinasyong ekolohikal, at dokumentadong mga kondisyon ng pagtatanghal. Iminumungkahi ng pag-aaral ang apat na tidal currents bilang konseptuwal at malikhaing estruktura ng Tidal Theater: Paghinga bilang paghinto at pakikinig; Pagtitipon; Paglunod bilang pakikibahagi sa krisis at kawalang-katiyakan; at Pag-ahon bilang muling paglitaw, rebisyon, at panibagong ugnayan. Higit pa sa paglalarawan ng baha o sakuna, tinutukoy ng Tidal Theater ang isang praktika na nakabatay sa komunidad, ekokritikal, posthuman, at creative-critical practice, kung saan tumutugon ang teatro sa krisis sa pamamagitan ng alaala, bayanihan, praktikang nakakatawan, at malikhaing pag-iral.
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Language
English
Format
Electronic
Keywords
Theater; Ecocriticism in literature; Posthumanism in literature; Community theater--Philippines--Marikina City
Recommended Citation
Tolentino, C. R. (2026). Tidal theater: Co-creating an ecocritical performance with teatro ni Juan of Marikina City. Retrieved from https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/etdm_lit/33
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