Original Visayan songs will be featured in this year’s Sugat sa Guadalupe Easter presentation in Cebu City.
A cast of 200 performers including 120 children, some of them appearing as angels, will also sing the Regina Coeli, a traditional Latin Marian hymn sung or recited during Easter.
Aljin Abaquita, the director, said there will be more technical effects and popular local personalities in this year’s production to be held on Easter Sunday at 2 a.m. at the Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe.
“Sugat” is the Cebuano word for meeting. This Easter ritual dramatizes the meeting of the risen Jesus Christ and his mother Mary.
Three actors will take turns playng the role of Jesus Christ for a smoother flow of the 35-minute production.
“We have three different persons playing Christ—one will be the singing Christ, the other will act his death and another to act as Christ during the resurrection,” said Abaquita.
The set design will also allow props to appear without too many people carrying them.
The play will be presented in a 40 by 55 foot stage in front of the Guadalupe church.
“Angels”, will be suspended from hooks 23 feet above the platform.
The father and son tandem winners of Cebu Pop 2013, Roy and Riel Tabasa, are also set to perform an original composition entitled Pagka wa koy kasingkasing.
Parish Pastoral Council head Ricardo de los Reyes said the Sugat has been a great help in ongoing construction of the Guadalupe convent that is now 60 percent complete.
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