Review of the MonoVlog
Serquiña, O. T. (2023). Emotional Weather Reports: Online performance as affective practice in the MonoVlogs of Layeta Bucoy and Olivia Kristine Nieto. Performance Research, 28(5), 14–22.
Tiatco, Sir Anril P. and Layeta P. Bucoy. Ang Teatrikalidad ng MonoVlog: Improbisasyon at Kuwentuhan sa Panahon ng COVID-19 sa Pilipinas. Daluyan: Journal ng Wikang Filipino, 29(2).
Radyo Romansa Presents (series)
Creator, performer, producer. MonoVlog and live singing.
Kumu – Ampalaya Monologues Channel. April 2021—present
The MonoVlog is studied at the UP Diliman Department of Speech Communication and Theatre Arts and is studied as the leading virtual theatre/performance genre in Metro Manila and nearby regions during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Performance-lecture of the MonoVlog and conversations on virtual theatre-making 🇺🇸
Uleb Nieto and Layeta Bucoy’s MonoVlog Series
Featured Performance for Virtual Performing Asia of eKomunidad Asia Performance Festival organised by Komunidad X and Japan Foundation Manila.
Free viewing. Streaming on kXchange.org from 9pm Friday November 5, 2021 – 9pm Friday November 19, 2021
About MONOVLOG SERIES:
MonoVlog became a series of original digital performances probing lockdown experiences in response to national affairs. Its form is bundled as a proof of life, a COVID 19 health advisory, a private Zoom conversation, a tribute to frontliners, a testimony, a death folder, a shoutout video of advocacy groups, a set of community-led responses to the pandemic, and a #ProtestFromHome movement. The form is being adopted by the Cultural Center of the Philippines’ Tanghalang Pilipino, the Bikol community theatre Sining Banwa, and the performance group Icebag Online. In the end, the process of creating a MonoVlog is a testament on how quarantined performance-makers in the Philippines reimagine the future of performance by innovating efforts to make an emergency shift to digital platforms, and by creating virtual communities in the time of the “viral” and the virus.
View details here.
The Giving Tree ko talaga ang MonoVlog at siyempre si Layeta Pinzon Bucoy! As always, riot ang presentation, Lallie!
Tapos na ang IFTR presentation ng MONOVLOG: VIRUS, VIRAL, VARIANT IN DIGITAL THEATRE IN THE PHILIPPINES. May future po ang ganitong timpla ng MonoVlog sa world (world congress kasi ito. Haha). Sinuot ko yung filipiniana bolero ni Debbie na gamit ko rin sisa sa mga MonoVlog.
Special mention ang mga gawa ng kaibigan na performance:
MonoVlog ng TP (Fernando C. Josef)
MonoVlog ng Sining Banwa (salamat, Sari Saysay)
Dulaang UP’s Tinarantadong Asintado (Bucoy-Rutaquio)
Manila Wrestling Federation (salamat, William Elvin Manzano)
Battalia Royale (salamat, SLE)
Ang performances na nireresearch konoon ay unti-unti na sumusulpot sa ginagawa ngayon. Salamat sa inyong generosity!
Ito yung panel namin:
GP 2-12 VIRAL SPECTATORSHIP OF COVID-19-TIMES
Chair: Lynne Kendrick
BEST SEAT TO RUN AND GUN – BEGINNINGS OF MULTI-VIEW STREAMING KINESTHETIC
SPECTATORSHIP IN LIVE ARTS
Ljubisa Matic (Independent Scholar)
ECHOES OF THE FRAGILE CITY: THE HOUSE AS A WORLD AND A STAGE
Antoni Ramon Graells and Tomàs Ivan Alcázar Serrat (Universitat Politècnica Catalunya)
International Federation for Theatre Research Manila 🇵🇭 2024
“How to Decolonize Po: Embodied Displacements in “El Traje Dela Cuerpo Conquistada” (The Trail/Gown of the Conquered Body)”
Performance Studies international # 30: XXX – Cruzo, Cruising, Crossroads
Fortaleza, Brazil 🇧🇷 2025
“3-in-1 Body Problem: El Traje dela Cuerpo Conquistada”
Olive Nieto 