Playwright Bienvenido M. Noriega, Jr. had his first opportunity at 20 to enter a contest when PETA had its Folklore Playwriting contest in 1973. He entered “Tinangay si Napsa, Tinangay si Napsa” and it won him second prize. The play is a one act adaptation of a tragic love triangle folktale.
Interestingly today, an article on Jose Dalisay was written by Eric Caruncho in the Philippine Inquirer where it was mentioned their early writing years when they were competing against each other. Jose Dalisay is nominated National Artist for Literature while Bienvenido M. Noriega, Jr is nominated National artist for Theatre. No doubt both most deserving.
Jose Dalisay wrote in his article “ A writer’s Baul” in Philstar.com, September 9, 2005:
“He was, to my mind, the best playwright we ever produced, bar none. His sense of the dramatic tended toward the deep, regretful sadness of foregone happiness and missed opportunities rather than riotous excess”
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