LPT’s Within and Without End: A Performance about Performers within Performers

Langgam Performance Troupe (LPT) opens its 11^th year of independent performance-making with Within and Without End (WAWE), a meta-devised work that reflects on the craft of acting and performance. 

A performance about performers within performers, WAWE commences a trilogy that explores one’s relationship with the theater machine by exploring the metaphysical nature and reality of performance. As an Open Rehearsal, audience members will witness a performer’s transformation, complete with actors’ warm-ups, improv exercises, exchanging of ideas, and run-throughs occasionally interrupted by the director and dramaturg.

WAWE also shapeshifts: not entirely loose, but open enough to arrive at different outcomes with each and every Open Rehearsal, further emphasising the inherent ephemerality of performance.  

WAWE was developed over two years by Opaline Santos, Serena Magiliw, and the late Joel Garcia, who will be joining the performance through his journal. The performance is directed by Jenny Logico-Cruz with dramaturgy by Blonski Cruz, who are also LPT’s artistic director and company manager respectively.

Within And Without End  had its first set of performances in March and experienced generally positive feedback with some glowing online reviews. Here are some excerpts and links to comments about WAWE: 

What surprised me is the openness to reflects that deeply into a certain appreciation of one’s crafts

–       Taken From the actor’s archive: within and without end | by Gio Potes | Mar, 2026 | Medium

what moved me most was the care in the process. the performers were treated deeply as humans. the costumes and objects carried personal meaning. the audience could move with the actors. so much space — physically and emotionally — for thinking and witnessing.

–   EA Torrado, Artistic Director of Daloy Dance Company

Qualities often attributed to restraint and precision in aesthetic projects can also emerge within an open rehearsal process – an honest and highly collaborative inquiry among all the bodies in the room.

–   Sabrina Basilio, Dramaturg and Performance Maker

After a successful run in March, the company would like to give more people the opportunity to join them in an Open Rehearsal within Metro Manila before they take the show to other parts of the country.

WAWE will run on May 8-9 (8pm) at 99 Mahiyain corner Madasalin St. Sikatuna Village, Quezon City. Tickets are available for PHP 800 until March 6, and PHP 1000 afterwards. 

Register tickets here: https://forms.gle/kHxBJPT8hvqaqY1K8

The audience is encouraged to register early as space is limited. The Open Rehearsal may require audience members to take off their shoes and move around the space accordingly with the guide of the creative team. Some aspects of the Open Rehearsal contain nudity.