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In the Pajadas’ home in coastal Iloilo, gay newspaper writer Dennis invites his bisexual boyfriend Raymond for a quiet weekend and introduces him to his homophobic father, whom he cares for after the rest of the family emigrated. Their conversation about family, ambition, guilt, and happiness is complicated by Raymond’s unseen wife and Dennis’s younger self appearing onstage.
In Ithaca on Panay Island, the older Mentor seduces 19-year-old Telemachus; after an affair and shared life, Telemachus leaves, and Mentor turns his heartbreak into a book of erotic sonnets before they reunite.
A forward-thinking Ilonggo playwright stages a sexually charged work that draws successive demands for rewrites from a director, producer, conservative consultant, and test audience. The playwright reluctantly revises it, and the play-within-the-play ends in a literal game of tic-tac-toe.
In the Pajadas’ home in coastal Iloilo, gay newspaper writer Dennis invites his bisexual boyfriend Raymond for a quiet weekend and introduces him to his homophobic father, whom he cares for after the rest of the family emigrated. Their conversation about family, ambition, guilt, and happiness is complicated by Raymond’s unseen wife and Dennis’s younger self appearing onstage.
In Ithaca on Panay Island, the older Mentor seduces 19-year-old Telemachus; after an affair and shared life, Telemachus leaves, and Mentor turns his heartbreak into a book of erotic sonnets before they reunite.
A forward-thinking Ilonggo playwright stages a sexually charged work that draws successive demands for rewrites from a director, producer, conservative consultant, and test audience. The playwright reluctantly revises it, and the play-within-the-play ends in a literal game of tic-tac-toe.