KATRE: Now Showing @ The Ateneo

Walang pinagbago

Parang ang noon at ngayon ay iisa

Walang ngayon

Tanging kahapong

Paulit-ulit

Gaya ng walang katapusang mga hampas 

Ng dagat sa kabatuhan

Mga hampas na katumbas ng mga segundo...

Mga hampas ng dagat na katumbas ng mga Linggo… 

Mga ilang buwan…

Mga hampas ng mga buwang naging ilang taon… 

Hanggang ang mga hampas ng mga dagat

Ay parang sampal na sa aking inang

Naghihintay hanggang sa kailangan na ngang 

kalimutan kung ano ang ngayon... 

Kung ano ang kasalukuyan

Ang mga hampas ng along yaon

Ay talagang parang mga sampal ng mga alaala

Na kailangan nang kalimutan para matanggal na ang sakit

Para mabunot na ang lahat ng mga tinik sa mga puso ng mga nawalay

Upang tumamlay na ang mga alon

At magpahinga na ang dagat.

Shaharazade, a young theatre group, which namesake comes from the Scherazade of Arabian Nights who must tell a story every night so sincere and moving to save her life, is presenting a festival of new plays in their latest production Drafts: Works in Process stages Katre, written by Christian Tordecillas and directed by Fitz Edward Bitana.


Katre (Bed) is a memory play of a character named Lea while waiting for her husband and son to go home. This is amidst all the here-says that her husband and son have been part of the desaparecidos or those people who are allegedly kidnapped by authorities being accused as members or part of the rebel groups commonly called as NPAs. Due to lack of basis to prove such assumptions, Lea continuous to survive living with a lot of memories which can be tailed as either her fantasies believing that her husband and son will soon come back knowing that it has been many years that they didn’t come home.


Katre will be staged from August 24, 30, 31; September 1, 2011 at the Exhibit hall, 3/F Gonzaga Hall, Ateneo De Manila University.