While in college at Ateneo de Manila University in Quezon City, Philippines, Rhona Lopez Nath acted in stage plays for the Tanghalang Ateneo theater company. Since 1972, Tanghalang Ateneo has been putting on classic plays, and many students involved with the company, including Rhona Lopez Nath, have gone on to pursue successful careers in media, theater, and related fields after graduation.

1. By Rhona Lopez Nath
The Tanghalang Ateneo Theater
Company Production of Kalantiaw

2. Introduction
 While in college at Ateneo de Manila University in
Quezon City, Philippines, Rhona Lopez Nath
acted in stage plays for the Tanghalang Ateneo
theater company. Since 1972, Tanghalang Ateneo
has been putting on classic plays, and many
students involved with the company, including
Rhona Lopez Nath, have gone on to pursue
successful careers in media, theater, and related
fields after graduation.
In March and April 2016, Tanghalang Ateneo will
be performing the play Kalantiaw, by Filipino
playwright Rene Villanueva. It will be directed by
Glenn Sevilla Mas, the theater arts coordinator for
the university.

3. Tanghalang Ateneo Theater
Company
 The play is based on a real-life event, a hoax
perpetrated by a Filipino scholar named Jose
Marco, who “discovered” a legal code supposedly
written by indigenous Filipinos prior to
colonization by the Spanish but actually written by
Marco himself. The text was accepted and taught
as history for many years in the Philippines until
revealed as a fraud in the 1960s. Villanueva’s
play examines the hoax in light of what it shows
about the self-identity of the Filipino people and
how they view their own history.