A marvelous sense of scale, local texture and atmosphere pervades “Lam-ang,” Tanghalang Pilipino’s new musical adaptation of the Ilocano epic poem “Biag ni Lam-ang.” ...

Lam-ang is an extraordinary being who was born as a grown man. He was barely a year old when he decided to look for his father who disappeared after he went to the land of the Igorot headhunters.