Dramatic Works

Merlinda Bobis performing Cantata of the Warrior Woman Daragang Magayon in a sound-screen montage. Collaboration with Virginia Hilyard, and Jane and Phillip Ulman (ABC Radio).

Merlinda Bobis’ River, River (creative development of play adapted from Fish-Hair Woman). Collaboration with Virginia Hilyard, Jane Ulman, Sarah de Jong, Campbelltown Filipinas, Bitabara Family, Campbelltown Arts Centre and Casula Powerhouse.

Holding Back the Storm (documentary for radio). With co-creator Jane Ulman. (ABC Radio), 2015

River, River (adapted from Bobis’ short story Fish-Hair Woman)
Bobis’ solo stage performance: USA, Spain 2009 & 2014; Canada, Australia, Philippines 2012 & 2013; Singapore 2013
Radio version: Jane Ulman, Producer. Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC Radio), 2006

Corazon de Lorca (ficto-documentary for radio). Jane Ulman, Producer. ABC Radio, 2008, 2011

The Covenant (poetry sound piece). In collaboration with Jane Ulman, Producer. ABC Radio, 2002-2004. Entry to the 2002 International US Third Coast Festival.

The Query (in collaboration with Urban Theatre Projects). Performance Space, Sydney, 1999

Ms. Serena Serenata . Sydney Asian Theatre Festival, 1997

Serenáda pre Serenu (Slovakian radio production). Vanda Feriancova, producer. Slovakia, 2001

Rita’s Lullaby (radio play). Christopher Williams, Producer. ABC Radio, 1997. Winner of 3 awards: Prix Italia 1998, Australian Writers’ Guild Award 1998, Ian Reed Foundation Prize for Radio Drama 1995

Cantata of the Warrior Woman Daragang Magayon
Kantada ng Babaing Mandirigma Daragang Magayon

Performances of various versions:

  1. Daragang Magayon Cantata (Collaborative stage performance: opera with dance and chanting with Latukefu, opera singer; Munro, pianist; Bobis, dancer and chanter. Music: Bruce Crossman; text: Merlinda Bobis). Western Sydney Aurora Festival, 2006

  2. Cantata: Sound-Screen Montage (Bobis’ performance in audio-visual medium, in collaboration with Virginia Hilyard, Jane and Phillip Ulman of ABC Radio), Manila, 1998

  3. Cantata of the Warrior Woman Daragang Magayon (Bobis’ solo performance). Jane Ulman, Producer. ABC Radio, 1998

  4. Some of Bobis’ solo stage performances (full play or excerpts):

  • Darwin Arts Festival (with Virginia Hilyard’s screen montage), 1996

  • Concert of Philippine Women Artists’ Collective, World Forum on Women, China, 1995

  • Sydney Asian Theatre Festival, 1994

  • 6th International Feminist Book Fair, 1994

  • Philippine-France Festival, Paris, 1994

  • Cultural Centre of the Philippines, Manila, 1994