The boy, no older than four, smiled bashfully at a student-teacher who continued to watch him closely, her patience constant and firm amidst the little kid’s blabbering about puppy love. She smiled back at him, coaxing and telling the little boy that she will call his sweetheart for him.
The plot may be the same, but the difference lies in the dialogues and characterization. The select use of modern Filipino, coupled with the olden mother tongue, made the contextualization of scenes easier.
What made Adarna more remarkable was its use of shadow animation, which made the play more fun to watch.
“Ang pagsasabi ng totoo, masakit man sa tenga ng ilan, ay magbibigay ng matibay na pundasyon sa malaya at maunlad na bansang gusto nating itatag (Truth-telling, although it hurts the ears of others, will provide the foundation of the free and developed nation we are building),” said Lacaba, the 2013 Gawad Plaridel recipient.
The ability of the campus paper to shape public opinion is the reason why it has always been facing threats to its freedom, taken under siege by those in positions of power – by institutions desperately trying to conceal the truth from the very first time that student-journalists learned to fill the pages with its mighty ink.
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