About the Experience
Control + Shift: Changing Narratives StudioLab is a live performance laboratory and creative platform for reclaiming and reimagining Filipino stories—shifting narrative power back to the people.
Building on its 2024 pilot, Control + Shift challenges dominant cultural narratives through innovative theatrical forms. Artists and creatives from communities, schools, and institutional partners come together in dialogue with audiences to examine lived experiences of care, harm, survival, and responsibility—crafting stories that confront the present, hold space for what needs healing, and imagine more humane and democratic ways of living together.
BE PART OF THE SHIFT! Take CONTROL of our stories and together, create a transformative SHIFT in the narratives that shape our nation!
SET A: WHEN POWER FALLS INTO OUR HANDS
Cleaners
Playwright: Jhudiel Clare Sosa
Director: Julio Garcia
A group of senior high students discovers that their graduation depends not just on cleaning classrooms—but on how far they’re willing to go when violence, power, and truth land in their hands.
Monit-Oh! Monit-ah!
Playwright: Herlyn Alegre
Director: Norbs Portales
A forum theatre piece that follows Jaylord, a rookie waiter hoping to win his boss’s favor through a Christmas monito-monita gift, only to uncover how seemingly harmless acts can feed into the larger, corrupt palakasan system—until one brave decision challenges the cycle.
SET B: WHEN CARE BECOMES SURVIVAL
Baga ng Gumuguhong Langit
Playwright: Anj Heruela
Director: Ian Segarra
Amid the chaos of war, orphaned children fight to survive in a world that has forgotten them, begging for care from communities pushed to the fragile edges of survival.
At Nagkatawang-Tao Ang Verbo
Tanghalang Bagong Sibol x Mikaela Regis
In a small urban fishing community along Ilog Tullahan, religious icons and biblical imagery come alive—not as distant saints, but as reflections of the people themselves—revealing how faith becomes flesh in the daily struggle for dignity, livelihood, and hope.
Show Dates and Times
Set A
Fri, 10 Apr. 2026 – 2:00 PM
Fri, 10 Apr. 2026 – 7:00 PM
Sun, 12 Apr. 2026 – 2:00 PM
Sat, 18 Apr. 2026 – 7:00 PM
Sun, 19 Apr. 2026 – 7:00 PM
Set B
Sat, 11 Apr. 2026 – 2:00 PM
Sat, 11 Apr. 2026 – 7:00 PM
Sun, 12 Apr. 2026 – 7:00 PM
Sat, 18 Apr. 2026 – 2:00 PM
Sun, 19 Apr. 2026 – 2:00 PM