Gunner Inglorious

Last November 29, 2008 a gathering of friends, family and college scholars trooped to Bantayog ng Bayani to watch and enjoy the Gunner Inglorious.

Quite a different experience - to watch 1 man tell the life-story of a world war 2 veteran who at that time was mere 22 years old. He told the story in an animated way and he did paint quite clearly the different emotions and scenarios by mere acting on his own with a chair on a side. I was so caught up with the story that I did not notice that time was almost over! The live performance took the audience to experience the events as they occur – the squalor, the agony, the futility of war, but also the ability of the human spirit to find humour and heroism in the midst of adversity.

Thank you to all the sponsors who gave 20 college scholars the chance to watch the show. The scholars came from Pathways to Education and the De La Salle-College of Saint Benilde's Scholars Program for Indigenous People's Youth.

And thank you Michael for sharing your gifts of energy and creativity to us. May God continue to bless you!!

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About the Artist -

Michael Burton is a playwright and he wrote the one-man show of Gunner Inglorious after reading the book written almost 50 years earlier. He has also written and performed Being Beethoven in New Zealand.

He had series of workshops on TRANSFORMATIVE SPEECH as a tool for self-transformation held recently at Institute for Steiner Ideas in Practice (I.S.I.P.)