Red Turnip Theater Closes Its Fourth Season With SCi-Fi Thriller ‘THE NETHER’

Fresh off the critical success of their last outing, the family comedy-drama Tribes, Red Turnip Theater is ready to take audiences into a different theater experience with the sci-fi thriller THE NETHER.

Ever since making their debut four years ago, Red Turnip has already made quite the dent in the local theater scene. By sticking to their vision of producing contemporary straight plays, this young company has almost single-handedly paved the way for the straight play to find equal footing in a landscape formerly dominated by the musical. Younger companies have sprouted and followed suit and there are now more text-driven plays getting produced than ever before. Each of the Red Turnip’s eight productions has gone on to top critics’ lists and garner awards and nominations from both the Aliw and Gawad Buhay Awards, making this company the go-to for outstanding plays that both entertain and move.

Red Turning Theater Opens New Season With 'Musical' PLay "33 Variations"

Red Turnip Theater is back for another season! Their splashy debut season gave us the much talked about hits CLOSER and COCK, which was followed up with the critically-acclaimed sophomore season of RABBIT HOLE and last February’s TIME STANDS STILL. All four productions have gone on to reap multiple awards and nominations from the Aliw and BroadwayWorld Philippine Awards, with COCK topping critics’ lists as the Best Play of 2014.  True to form, this band of 5 actors (Ana Abad Santos, Topper Fabregas, Jenny Jamora, Cris Villonco, Rem Zamora) promises to push the envelope further as they show another facet to Red Turnip this year. 

Opening the Third Season is 33 VARIATIONS by Moisés Kaufman. 

33 VARIATIONS tells the story of a renowned musicologist, Katherine Brandt, who is on a mission to discover why Beethoven composed the Diabelli variations, considered as one of his greatest masterpieces. Her daughter, Clara, is on a mission to find her place in her mother's world. Together, they maneuver through Beethoven's colorful life, their own challenging relationship, and somehow find their answers within his music. Shifting between periods and places, 33 VARIATIONS is the story of mothers and daughters and the legacies we long to leave behind.

ART IS A BANG: Red Turnip Theater Opens Second Season with ‘RABBIT HOLE’

They are not your ordinary theater with musicals, large stages or a school of performers for a production, red Turnip Theater is known to have intimate yet creative approach to stage plays. They have produced Closer and Cock for their first season, staged at whitespace in Makati. So what is in store for the new season of Red Turnip? They are now going up a notch with another set of great plays for this year and early 2015.

Though in its infant stages, it has proven to be a prodigy on its own with the kind of theater that they offer to the public. Their uniqueness made them noticed by partner brand like Fila Philippines who supported the run of 'Cock' last season.