Following their debut in PETA Control + Shift: Changing Narratives in 2024 and 2025, the daring experimental works Kislap at Fuego and Children of the Algo are back on stage from January 27 to February 7, 2026, at the PETA Theater Center. Transitioning from the experimental fringe to the main stage, these two productions headline the Philippine Educational Theater Association’s (PETA) Main Theater Season as a highly anticipated twinbill.
First introduced in 2024 as raw, boundary-pushing pieces in the Control + Shift LIVE shows, both productions quickly became audience favorites. Their success led to a featured showcase in the 2025 Control + Shift: Changing Narratives Festival, where they solidified their reputation for challenging norms and redefining storytelling.
Now in their third iteration, the twinbill welcomes broader audiences—from students to the general public—offering a compelling exploration of Filipino identity across time and technology.
Dominique La Victoria’s Kislap at Fuego, directed by Maribel Legarda and J-mee Katanyag, with Filipino translation by Gentle Mapagu, tells a surprising fairytale of love between a kapre and a country girl, set against the Philippine Revolution against Spain. The play examines love, rebirth, and revolution through a lens that intertwines myth and history.
Mixkaela Villalon’s Children of the Algo, directed by Johnnie Moran, immerses audiences in the mediated world of Gen Z content creators, where identities are curated, justice is hashtagged, and meaning is negotiated within the algorithm. With wit and vulnerability, the play challenges viewers to look beyond viral narratives and digital personas to the human realities underneath.
Presented together as a twinbill, these works invite reflection on how Filipino values persist, evolve, or are contested across generations. By placing folklore alongside social feeds, and myth alongside memes, the pairing embodies PETA Control + Shift’s mission: to explore how tradition and technology collide, converse, and coexist, and how Filipinos continue to imagine revolution in a rapidly shifting world.
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