I caught two plays from the currently running Eyeball: New Visions in Philippine Theater at the Cultural Center of the Philippines last Sunday. One of the plays was entitled "Isang Araw Sa Karnabal", written by Nicolas Pichay, a play which won the Palanca Award in the One Act Play category.
Sheenly Gener and Yul Servo served as the couple in this show that I caught and the play was quite interesting since it interposed a love story into a case of a daughter left by a desaparesido. It was alternately funny and sad and there was never a dull moment as you slowly discover what this relationship is really about. Sheenly's character has never found her father and because of that, she's now having issues about it, while Yul, plays her boyfriend, who, only appears to Sheenly now, after disappearing for a few months. All these issues are discussed and acted out and you really feel that a denouement and a climax is reached in the end when both characters thresh those issues out.
It's a pity they had to play to a thin crowd. More Filipinos should know about what the CCP is offering since their works are not only entertaining but thought-provoking too!
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