21/07/2016
Set in the Philippines in the 1880s, Noli Me Tangere is a love story – for a woman and a homeland – a story of Spanish suppression (350 years) and the kindling of Filipino revolution.
Directed by Aarne Neeme, this is a reading of the musical which is the story of Crisostomo Ibarra, a man who returns from Europe to the Philippines and wishes to build a school in his home village to help educate his people out of the slavery of ignorance under Spanish rule. Ibarra finds himself in bitter conflict with the priest who denied his father Christian burial and who is doing everything in his power to stop the romance between Ibarra and his beloved, the angelic Maria Clara de Los Santos.
The story also concerns Sisa, a village woman searching for her sons who disappeared and are feared murdered by an abusive local priest.
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This is the 2nd semi-staged reading of Noli Me Tangere (Touch Me Not) is a musical production presented in its entirety in English. It is the first ever Australian adaptation of Jose Rizal’s famous novel. The Reading gives audiences an opportunity to take part in the journey of the making of this hi...