QC remembers late President Manuel L. Quezon with a stage play

• Source: http://www.pna.gov.ph/index.php?nid=12&rid=794718
• Tuesday, August 18, 2015

By Leilani S. Junio [(PNA), RMA/LSJ]

MANILA, Aug. 18 (PNA)-- The Quezon City government, through the Diamond Jubilee Commission, will conduct the premiere showing of “MLQ: Ang Buhay ni Manuel Luis Quezon, Isang Dula” at new Frontier Theater in Cubao on Wednesday, as part of the Quezon City's 75 founding anniversary celebration.

The play will be shown on Aug. 20, 25, 26, 27 and 28.

There will be two showings per day: 10 a.m. – 12 noon and 2 p.m. – 4 p.m.

The play was first presented in 2009, during the 70th anniversary of the founding of QC, wherein the PETA Theater served as performance venue.

The play highlights s the life and legacy of the late, great President Manuel L. Quezon wherein his historical and his heroic contributions to the establishment of an independent Philippines were narrated.

This play also hopes to be a catalyst for people to have a better awareness and appreciation of the sacrifices and patriotism of Quezon who is remembered also as “Father of the Philippine National Language” for advocating Filipino language amendments.

Manuel Luis Quezon y Molina was born in Tayabas, Quezon on Aug. 19, 1878.

He served as president of the Commonwealth of the Philippines from 1935 to 1944.

He was the first Filipino to head a government of the Philippines and was considered to have been the second president of the Philippines, after Emilio Aguinaldo (1897–1901).

He was first Senate President elected to the presidency, the first president elected through a national election and the first incumbent to secure re-election.

During his presidency, Quezón tackled the problem of landless peasants in the countryside.

Other major decisions include reorganization of the islands' military defense, approval of recommendation for government reorganization, promotion of settlement and development in Mindanao, dealing with the foreign stranglehold on Philippine trade and commerce, proposals for land reform, and opposing graft and corruption within the government.

During his exile in the United States, he died of tuberculosis at Saranac Lake, New York on Aug. 1, 1944.

He was buried in the Arlington National Cemetery until the end of World War II, when his remains were moved to Manila.

His final resting place is the Quezon City Memorial Circle.