“Thrilla in Manila”: Troubling Theatricality and Uneasy Spectator Affects Surrounding the Ringside Bar Midget Boxing and Wrestling

• Main Author: Tan, Neslie Carol
• Format: text
• Published: Animo Repository 2021
• Subjects: midget wrestling and boxing; Little People; freak show; confused affects; activated spectators; Pacific Islands Languages and Societies; South and Southeast Asian Languages and Societies; Theatre and Performance Studies
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/akda/vol1/iss2/2; https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/context/akda/article/1011/viewcontent/1_Tan_Thrilla_20in_20Manila_Akda_201_282_29.pdf
• Institution: De La Salle University

This paper illustrates how performance and affect inform disability politics in the case of Filipino Little People wrestlers and boxers at the Ringside Bar along a red-light district in Makati City, Philippines. The archive of the study focuses on the reception of its primarily foreign visitors as m...