Welcome to Manila in the turbulent period of the Philippines’ late dictator. It is a world in which American pop culture and local Filipino tradition mix flamboyantly, and gossip, storytelling, and extravagant behavior thrive. A wildly disparate group of characters—including movie stars and waiters, a young junkie and the richest man in the Philippines—becomes ensnared in a spiral of events culminating in a beauty pageant, a film festival, and an assassination. At the center of this maelstrom is Rio, a feisty schoolgirl who will grow up to live in America and look back with longing on the land of her youth.
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1998, La Jolla Playhouse, California
2002
Theatre Communications Group
9781559362153
Stylized
Lena receives a phone call from her boyfriend late at night begging her to come be with him in the city. As Lena packs up to go to the city, her sister and mother reveal that Johnny died 6 months ago in a bar. Her mother calls a minister hoping he could help Lena; he ends up going to the city with Lena in hopes of protecting her. A ghost, a Coyote story and impossible love impel a reserve family into the depths of the Silver Dollar bar.
Stylized
The ghosts of six more or less urban Indians haunt the city at night, retelling themselves the stories of the central moments of their lives. These retellings allow them to make some sense of their lives, loves and to return to their families and community, to rest in peace.
