Three Kings

Figure 4.

Sound Bags was the second script read by Peng Olaguera, but this time Ray Albano assigned pages to each of the members of Karioka. Each was provided with a microphone on a stand. The first page was labelled Huge, the second, Judy, and the third page, Ray, with the succeeding pages labelled with their names in the said order. After Olaguera had read page one, he paused as a cue for Bartolome to take out an object from a paper bag to make sounds with, which was amplified by the microphone. After the second page was read by the actor, Sibayan did the same, and the artists continued to take turns in an act of 'gifting' the audience with sounds like the strumming of a comb or the crumpling of pieces of paper. Note here, traditionally the closing remarks should have been the welcome remarks. As in all parody, not only is the story rewritten as commentary on the original, but even the form is transformed. In both 'scripts' Albano, the homo ludens, is present. Courtesy of Judy Freya Sibayan Archive.