Tanghalang Pilipino’s Sandosenang Sapatos was a dream secluded. Away from the carpeted lobby floors and down the stairs of Tanghalang Huseng Batute, we find bareness: the stage being an arena of two circles conjoined. There was a slight elevation in the middle of each disc while a strip of yellow surrounds it. To the side rested instruments to be used as live accompaniment once the national anthem has been sung. I mused why such a children’s classic was to be staged this way. Yet having waited three months for the chance to finally pounce on these gala tickets, my giddy childhood expectations hushed itself to wait as piano notes started to waft through the dimmed auditorium. A blue light is cued, and the stage is set.
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