About the show 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.
Sources: Wikipedia page identity · Wikipedia source revision · Catalog year research, second pass: The Wide Ionian Sea
Wikipedia source revision : Wikipedia contributors, The Wide Ionian Sea; revision 1382019504. History: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Wide%20Ionian%20Sea&action=history ; license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ . Synopsis paraphrased during individual-page model review. Catalog year basis: The play was the sole Palanca Awards one-act play winner in 2010, and the source dates the work to 2010; no premiere is given, so 2010 is an estimated work-date fallback.
Catalog year research, second pass: The Wide Ionian Sea : Reviewed online 11 November 2026, second pass. Author-hosted August 2010 article explicitly dates writing to 2008 and distinguishes the 2010 Palanca award. Corrected the estimated fallback from award year 2010 to composition year 2008. Original staging remains unverified. This assessment supersedes earlier catalog-year fallback notes for this record.