PETA and Ticket2me presents the stage adaptation of ENDO(2026) or "end of contract", based on the 2007 film about a love story between two workers in the gig economy. The play will run from April 10 to May 10. In this episode, we are joined by Liza Magtoto, award-winning playwright of ENDO. We discuss her body of work in theater, her collaborations with PETA, and her approach to adapting ENDO onstage. We also talk about the importance in telling the story of precarious labor in the Philippines and the role of theater in instilling socio-political awareness, hope and solidarity.

0:00 Intro

1:40 How Liza Magtoto got into Theater

7:40 History of PETA

11:00 Peta's 59th Anniversary

13:30 Liza Magtoto's Mission in Theater

20:00 Liza Magtoto's most important work and legacy

24:30 Background of staging ENDO

25:10-25:17

32:00 ENDO as a love story

37:00 Dealing with social realities

40:30 Updating ENDO

42:00 Why watch theater about social realities?

46:50 Writing Political Theater

49:00 Hope in Theater

52:09 Why the Phiippines needs theater

57:00 Recommendations

1:00:30 On the Cast

You may purchase your tickets here:https://www.ticket2me.net/event/22737

You can find more shows here: https://www.ticket2me.net/

You can find more about PETA here: https://petatheater.com/

Recommendations-

1. Endo (2007)-https://www.bilibili.tv/en/video/4790450211914240

2. Remaindered life by Neferti Tadiar-https://unipress.ateneo.edu/product/remaindered-life

3. continuing the narrative of Philippine theater the story of Peta-https://petatheater.com/a-continuing-narrative-on-philippine-theater-the-story-of-peta/

4. Birthings: A Journal of Shared Lives by Liza Magtoto-https://petatheater.com/birthings-a-journal-of-shared-lives/

5. Bienvenida de Soltera by Liza Magtoto-https://shopee.ph/Bienvenida-de-Soltera-Tatlong-Dulang-Ganap-ang-Haba-by-Liza-C.-Magtoto-i.291137203.5545679547

6. Control Shift-https://www.ticket2me.net/ControlShift

Why is Theater Political with Langgam Performance Troupe

The P*I* podcast is a media partner of Langgam Performance Group, a contemporary performance company focused on experimental theater. Their new show, "Within and Without End" will run on March 13 and March 14. Langgam Director, Jenny Logico-Cruz, and Dramaturg, Blonski cruz, discuss their different brand of theater, the importance of theater in democracy and their insights from their experimentation.

You may purchase tickets for Within and Without end here: https://forms.gle/H37QAgcbc597SBZm8

You may find them here:

W: www.langgamperformancetroupe.com

FB: https://www.facebook.com/LanggamPT/

IG: https://www.instagram.com/langgampt/

Recommendations:

1. Notes on Theater Rolando Tinio- https://everythingsfine.cococart.co/#intro

2. Theater Fans Manila-https://theaterfansmanila.com/

3. Endo (PETA)-https://www.ticket2me.net/event/22737

4. Ang Babae sa Septic Tank 4-https://petatheater.com/events/ang-babae-sa-septic-tank-4-oh-sht-its-live-sa-cheter/

5. Mga Mister ni Rosario

Timestamps

0:00 Intro

1:15 What is langgam

4:20 Langgam's Mission and place in Ph theater

11:40 What is Experimental Theater

18:50 What is a Langgam Experience

23:40 What is a Drammaturg;

28:10 Scriptless productions

33:00 Theater and Democracy

39:00 Politics of Langgam

47:00 Within and Without End

1:00:00 Why watch Langgam

1:05:05 Recommendations

The 2025 midterm elections have just concluded with may surprising and crucial results in the senatorial and partylist races. We are joined by Prof. Arjan, Assistant Professor at Ateneo de Manila University, seasoned campaign consultant and Political Analyst. We discuss what makes a good campaign, election spending, endorsements, coalitions and how they affected the results of the Senatorial and partylist elections.

You can follow Arjan at the following links:

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/arj.aguirre.9

X (formerly twitter): @arjaguirre

Email: [email protected]

0:00 Intro

1:20 Arjan's Campaign Experiences

4:40 Basic Principles of a good campaign

12:10 Adjusting to difficult campaigns

17:30 Campaign Strategies backfiring

24:20 Endorsements

31:00 On the Senatorial Magic 12

36:00 On Imee Marcos and Camille Villar

39:30 On Bam Aquino and Kiko Pangilinan

45:30 Arj's advice to Alyansa team

53:00 Arj's Advice to Duterten

59:00 Partylist results

1:09:00 Final Remarks

Note: You MUST watch this in VIDEO format!

In just one week away from the 2025 Midterm elections, we are joined by Timothy "Tim" Hormigos who has produced detailed and comprehensive maps of the 2022 National and Local election results. We discuss his process in creating the maps and key voting territories, patterns and power struggles he discovered with the maps.

You may find Timothy's work at his X(formerly Twitter) account here:

https://x.com/bnstim?s=21

You can find Project Boses '25 here: https://t.co/DCzouBKEOe

Timestamps:

0:00 Intro

1:40 Who is Tim Hormigos

4:00 Why Maps?

7:40 Presidential Maps

30:40 Senatorial Maps

48:50 Partylist Maps

1:06:30 Concluding Remarks

1:13:30 Recommendations

Recommendations:

Post-Marcos Politics: A Geographic and Statistical Analysis of the 1992 Philippine Elections by Carl Lande

https://bookshop.iseas.edu.sg/publication/186

https://www.amazon.com/Post-Marcos-Politics-Carl-Lande/dp/9813055200

Philippine Electoral Almanac:

https://archive.org/details/philippine-electoral-almanac-revised-and-expanded/page/n123/mode/2up

Comelec: https://comelec.gov.ph/?r=home

For more x(formerly Twitter) maps, check them out here:

@ianislander3

@Heyograpinas

@AkachiYousoro

This episode features Lean Porquia, lifelong activist, labor organizer and candidate for the Partylist, Bayan Muna, one of the pioneers of the party list system.

We discuss the importance of protest, labor issues, Bayan Muna's rich history in the left and congress, its struggles with red-tagging, the partylist system and Bayan Muna's platform for 2025.

You may learn more about Bayan Muna below:

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/bayanmunapartylist/

TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@bayanmunapartylist

Website: https://bayanmuna.com.ph/

Email:[email protected]

0:00 Music

0:10 Intro

1:30 Who is Lean Porquia

5:00 Lean's leftist influences

9:20 The left's reputation among Filipinos

12:15 The left and protest culture

16:00 What protests gave us

19:00 What is Bayan Muna

22:00 The Rise and decline of Bayan Muna

29:30 Bayan Muna and Red-tagging

34:00 Bayan Muna's legislative record and platform

40:30 How Bayan Muna adjusts for 2025

46:20 Party list reforms

48:00 Why vote for Bayan Muna

50:00 Nominees of Bayan Muna

In our ongoing series on the 2025 Midterm Elections, Drew Uy is back and is once again running for mayor of Paranaque City. In this episode, we discuss his new platform, his new team of volunteers, his running mate and heartwarming stories of his interactions with the Citizens of Paranaque.

#UyParaSaParanaque

Check out his previous episode here: https://open.spotify.com/episode/4zz8WhtRFyYqmMEKtnIzjG?si=q-0C31BCTzanyJ6zSHGzyQ

For more information about his current campaign, see the links below:

Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/DrewTheDo

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drewthedo/

TikTok:https://www.tiktok.com/@drewthedo

For Eric Martinez:

https://www.facebook.com/KonsiEricMartinez

This episode is a first of a series featuring returning guests and new guests participating in the upcoming 2025 Midterm elections. In this episode, David San Juan returns as 3rd Candidate for the Act Teacher's partylist to discuss the partylist system, the achievements and platforms of Act Teachers, issues and challenges of the teacher's sector and education in the Philippines

Take note that this episode is for educational purposes and the guestings do not act as a political endorsement to the candidates and parties featured.

See more of Act teacher's partylist here:

Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/ACTteachers/

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcURaLBzsu1DbTvHw83ZaDw

Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@act_teachers

For our 100th upload, we are joined by Mara Coson and Sam Marcelo of Exploding Galaxies, a press focused on republishing and rediscovering old Filipino literary masterpieces such as Wilfredo Nolledo's For the Lovers, Linday Ty-Casper's Three Cornered Sun and many more. Get your copies and learn more about exploding galaxies at the following links:

Website: https://www.explodinggalaxies.com/

Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/exploding_galaxies/

Everything is fine bookstore: https://www.instagram.com/everythingsfineph/?hl=en

0:00 Music

0:15 Intro

1:50 The beginning of Exploding Galaxies

3:30 Republishing old masterpieces

6:40 Why begin with Nolledo's But for the lovers?

10:40 Updating Nolledo

13:10 Why Three-Cornered Sun as a follow-up?

15:30 Collaborating with Lynda Ty-Casper

18:20: Family and History

20:50 Designing the books

29:00 the Impact of Exploding Galaxies

34:00 The Future of Exploding Galaxies

37:30 Politics of Exploding Galaxies

42:00 Closing Messages

43:00 Recommendations

Recommendations:

Arcane Season 2: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11126994/

Greg Brillantes Collected Stories:https://unipress.ateneo.edu/product/collected-stories-gregorio-c-brillantes

Saving Mr. Banks :https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2140373/

Tiny Beautiful Things:https://www.amazon.com/Tiny-Beautiful-Things-10th-Anniversary-dp-0593685210/dp/0593685210/ref=dp_ob_title_bk

Disney:https://www.disneyplus.com/en-gb/series/tiny-beautiful-things/3qcYH5G1LUZv

A rambling reflection on Saints and Citizens for All Saint's Day followed by an important announcement.

In this episode, we talk with Direk Kip Oebanda, Writer and Director of iconic films like Bar Boys, now a musical, Liway, and Balota, his latest film. We talk about what inspired Balota, the impact of his works, the link between advocacy and branding, and what we can learn from Philippine elections.

Balota is out now in theaters. See cinema schedules here:

https://www.clickthecity.com/movies/buyticket/6dbcfd/cinemanila-balota

Barboys the Musical is also showing. See tickets here:

https://ticket2me.net/event/21741

You can watch more of Kips films here:

https://www.youtube.com/@leadharb

You can watch Barboys here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzvAKY6Xbno&t=5s&ab_channel=KipOebanda

You can watch Liway here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVzF8xqctco&t=387s&ab_channel=KipOebanda

0:00 Music

0:15 Intro

1:20 Kip's start in Filmmaking

4:!5 Kip's as a political filmmakers?

6:30 Barboys and Barboys Musical

12:59 Barboys inspiring lawyers

15:00 Liway and Propaganda

25:40 Why Balota

35:50 Politicians of Balota

40:25 Marian Reviera, Sasha Girl, and Esnyr

46:00 Hope in politics

52:00 Final Message

55:50 Recommendations

Recommendations:

Barber's Tales

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3254578/

On the JOb 2: The missing 8

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3785036/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

The Substance

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt17526714/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_1_tt_7_nm_0_in_0_q_The%2520Substance

No!

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2059255/