The second play that I saw for the currently running Eyeball: New Visions in Philippine Theater series is "Maliw", which, like Isang Araw Sa Karnabal, also involves searching, or in this case, waiting for a loved one. This time, it's their younger daughter who is now a desaparecido and the ones waiting are two folks in the twilight of their years. It's quite a poignant play since it shows how people cope with losing loved ones, especially in this case where they never found her body. Their resiliency is already a display of their courage. In "Maliw" though, the daughter "returns" and has a final interaction with her mother. Frankly, I could always see Jonas Burgos Mom being that mother on the stage and it's sad that the ones who took her son don't even care to tell her the truth! Such cowardice!
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