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Eugene Domingo: "Theater is Sh*t!!!"

 

What happens if the lead actress would call the shot and insists her way in the theater production? 

In the case of Eugene Domingo, also lovingly called Uge, she transforms into a delightfully annoying diva especially when she was going overboard with all her eccentric "notes." 


"Ang Babae sa Septic Tank 4: Oh Sh*t It's Live sa Cheter!" runs from June 19 to August 16, 2026, at the PETA Theater Center in Quezon City. Chris Martinez is still the writer with PETA veteran Maribel Legarda as director. 


Playing as herself and celebrating her 37th year as a theater actress, Uge gathered her friends to dinner and proposed a new project: something big and impactful to commemorate a career milestone. 

With "urgency and involvement" as motivation, she wanted to star in a grand production of Aurelio Tolentino's 1903 nationalistic classic "Kahapon, Ngayon at Bukas" as Inang Bayan. 

And the play should be staged on a ship deck in the middle of the West Philippine Sea.

Of course, her friends showed up and agreed to her whim after much prodding. They were director Marlon N. Rivera, producer Melvin Lee, fellow actors Stella Canete-Mendoza, Andoy Ranay, JC Santos, and Meann Espinosa. Writer Rody Vera couldn't make it, and Lee brought in up-and-coming talent Joshua Lim So in Vera’s place. 

Eugene with her Ugeng-gengs


The ever-reliable girl-Friday and intimacy coordinator Espinosa, brought in her gang of street urchins, the "Ugeng-gengs", to serve as the ensemble in Domingo's passion project. They were: Kiki Baento, Carlon Matobato, Roi Calilong, Nyla Festejo, James Lanante, Reggie Ondevilla, Ada Tayao, Pio Viola and Mico Esquivel, with alternates Ron Alfonso, Jay Cortez, Eli Namoc and Air Paz. 


The result was a hilarious, chaotic presentation of a play within a play. Walang tapon ang lahat ng performers: Ranay was natural in his gay-ness, Canete-Mendoza was unrecognizable in playing a male warrior character in some scenes, while Santos unleashed his versatility by effortlessly transitioning from classic Filipino to archaic English to hiphop Taglish, folk-dancing and tap-dancing along the way.

Eugene as Inang Bayan


From the original Cinemalaya film "Ang Babae sa Septic Tank" (2011), came the sequels "Ang Babae sa Septic Tank 2: ForeverIsNotEnough", and "Ang Babae sa Septic Tank 3: The Real Untold Story of Josephine Bracken". For the 4th iteration, theater fanatics and audiences all agree that Eugene outdo herself in the last three editions, "revealing more than she had ever revealed before" - - especially with the wet and wild ending of the play. 


Make no wonder about it, multi-awarded Uge was theater actress first before venturing into the cinema. The Theater Arts graduate from UP Diliman has worked with well-renowned directors like Tony Mabesa, Behn Cervantes and Ishmael Bernal. 



With the way ST4 is running on sold-out tickets, Eugene is the real sh*t of the theater industry. And her age at early 50s, she’s still giving the younger performers a run for their money!

Credit: Photos from PETA Facebook page



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