THE Japan Foundation partnered with the Sinag Arts Foundation in organizing the ASEAN-Japan Technical Theater and Design Workshop 2006, which was held for two weeks recently at the Sinag Arts Foundation Studio in Mandaluyong City.

For its showcase, the workshoppers assisted in Tanghalang Pilipino’s production of ZsaZsa Zaturnnah, a fantasy musical comedy that spoofs the Pinoy comic-book character Darna as a gay beauty salon owner who mysteriously acquires supernatural powers to battle evil spirits.

ZsaZsa stars local TV soap opera mainstay Eula Valdes, who says this is her first foray into the theater.