Fresh out of Music Museum’s All About Men: PENIS TALKS—theater’s much anticipated answer to the successful Vagina Monologues series. The musical was a collaboration between director Joel Lamangan, scriptwriter Ricky Lee, and an all-ensemble male cast of the “hunkiest” actors in Philippine showbiz today.
Promotions aside, much controversy surrounded the play as well as a congressman demanded that the staging be stopped for “pornographic and malicious content”. What can probably be considered “malicious” is how this particular tidbit was used to draw more hype to the play… if there is indeed such truth to it. I guess, they were successful in this area—all seats were filled, and the reception was so enthusiastic that they’re staging a one-night-only performance on the 28th of October.
For Filipinos, theater does not draw that much attention as compared to films. It seems to demand a higher level of appreciation for the arts and culture. Which is why when such sensitive topics like Human Sexuality and vaginas and penises are tackled in theater, it’s considered art. In movies, it’s considered low-class porn. Market for theater audiences therefore are those with more liberated minds—more critical in deconstructing truths and myths about society weaved subtly (and sometimes boldly) as well in each act of the play.
For products like Felina and personal lubricants, such is our target market—those minds that are open enough to accept that there are such products available which can not only help you in your menopause stages, but stimulate your sexual life and sexuality as well. Hopefully, it will take more than just a series of Penis Talks and Vagina Monologues and Menopause the Musicals to liberate the Filipino’s conservative attitude towards sex. That is perhaps one of our biggest barriers to break, to date---and one which we are most willing to triumph over soon…
Promotions aside, much controversy surrounded the play as well as a congressman demanded that the staging be stopped for “pornographic and malicious content”. What can probably be considered “malicious” is how this particular tidbit was used to draw more hype to the play… if there is indeed such truth to it. I guess, they were successful in this area—all seats were filled, and the reception was so enthusiastic that they’re staging a one-night-only performance on the 28th of October.
For Filipinos, theater does not draw that much attention as compared to films. It seems to demand a higher level of appreciation for the arts and culture. Which is why when such sensitive topics like Human Sexuality and vaginas and penises are tackled in theater, it’s considered art. In movies, it’s considered low-class porn. Market for theater audiences therefore are those with more liberated minds—more critical in deconstructing truths and myths about society weaved subtly (and sometimes boldly) as well in each act of the play.
For products like Felina and personal lubricants, such is our target market—those minds that are open enough to accept that there are such products available which can not only help you in your menopause stages, but stimulate your sexual life and sexuality as well. Hopefully, it will take more than just a series of Penis Talks and Vagina Monologues and Menopause the Musicals to liberate the Filipino’s conservative attitude towards sex. That is perhaps one of our biggest barriers to break, to date---and one which we are most willing to triumph over soon…
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