What must you do to uncover the truth? Eldrin Veloso\u2019s Pilato aims to answer that question; premiering this April 4-13 at the PETA Theatre Center in Quezon City. This musical tells the story of the trial and crucifixion of Jesus Christ through the perspective of Pontius Pilate\u2014or more known as Poncio Pilato\u2014hoping the audience to have a fresh perspective as Pilato as \u201ca man in between the crossroads of power, faith and duty.\u201d<\/p>\n
Pontius Pilates is a name you can easily recognize; Pilates is a character in the Bible, a Roman Governor who presided over the trial of Jesus and eventually, ordered his crucifixion. In this bold reimagining, Pilato is an all-original Filipino musical production, which consists of Pilato\u2019s early life, his ambition to be a governor in Rome, and the growing influence of Hesus, whose teachings and advocacies differ from the status quo at the time.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s interesting to look at the trial and crucifixion of Jesus Christ from the perspective of Pilate, without becoming just another Senakulo. It\u2019s an old story, so we brought it to today\u2019s view, with the question Pilate himself asked over 2,000 years ago\u2014what is the truth?\u201d Writer and Director, Veloso shared in a press conference in February.<\/p>\n
Poncio Pilato\u2019s decisions are heavily dissected by an important handful of people; the historiographer, Josepo; the high priest, Caiaphas; his wife, Procla; and lastly, Hesus himself, whose presence was rumoured to be the \u201cKing of the Jews.\u201d<\/p>\n
Josepo is the only character in this musical who is fictional, his character is used to show that the problems back then are still relevant today, and how humans never learn, and always have the desire to self-sabotage, love, be jealous, and other traits.<\/p>\n
The musical opens just in time for Holy Week, which can cause some raised brows due to the subject, some may even claim it to be blasphemous, however, these stories are still important to be told; to understand that we, as humans are flawed, and we make mistakes, we may trust the wrong people, not necessarily to plead for forgiveness\u2014as much as it is our nature to do so as well\u2014but to understand the why we do these actions, and to uncover \u201cano ang katotohanan?\u201d<\/p>\n
Pilato will run from April 4 to 13, with performances at 3:00pm and 8:00pm at the PETA Theatre Center. Tickets are now available online and updates, as well as behind the scenes content, are now regularly posted on the musical\u2019s official Facebook and Instagram pages.<\/p>\n
What is the truth? Who decides? And at what cost? These are the questions that echo through time in Pilato the Musical.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":110,"featured_media":260596,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19569],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-260595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies"],"zyndk8_nxtgen_metadata":{"nxtgen_comments":[{"965":"ano daw? ano katotohanan?\r","966":"bakit parang gusto ko panuorin pero takot ako maoffend \ud83d\ude05\r","967":"ang taray ng concept ah. risky pero brave.\r","968":"interesting to for Holy Week viewing\r","969":"hahanapin ko nga page nila\r"}]},"yoast_head":"\n