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Play by Hannah Louise Enanoria | August 22nd, 2010
CHARACTERS:
Lando, 28
Dina, 23
Checkered Blue man
Arturo Dela Cruz
SCENE: In a dim street in Quezon Blvd. Dina is leaning her back on the wall while standing. Lando, smoking a cigarette, approaches her.
LANDO: [faces Dina] So, are you okay?
DINA: A bit cold.
LANDO: [looks at his watch] It’s 11:48. [touches Dina’s forehead]
DINA: Don’t worry, I’ll be fine. You know my stamina is strong.
LANDO: Have you slept well?
DINA: Two hours or three.
LANDO: You’ll make it through this night?
DINA: You bet, I can. [LANDO throws the used cigarette on the floor, gets a new one from his pocket, and lights it] So, what happens uptown?
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Play by Freidrich Layno, Hazel Meghan Hamile | August 8th, 2010
Tauhan:
Guro, lalake, 23, payat, Religion teacher.
Mommy, 39, manikurista na liberated at matalino.
Lugar:
Ang guro ay naghihintay sa Prefect of Discipline’s office. Siya ay nakaupo sa harap ng kanyang mesa. May crucifix sa nakasabit sa dingding at bookshelf sa kaliwa ng mesa.
Mother: (sisilip sa opisina) Ay! Ang cute! (lalapit sa guro at sisikaping maging pormal) Teacher, ano ba ang problema ng anak ko? Diyos ko! Nagmamadali pa naman akong pumunta dito, yung mga customers ko, iniwan ko pang basa ang mga kuko.
Teacher: Good afternoon, Mrs. de los Santos.
Mother: Ms. na lang po. Teacher,ano nang nangyari sa anak ko? mababa ba ang grades niya? Natutulog ba siya sa klase? Binubully ba siya o siya ang binu-bully? Binugbog mo ba siya o ikaw ang binugbog niya?
Teacher: Ma’am, relax lang po. Ahm…sit down, please. Can I offer you something? Coffee? Orange juice…
Mother: (Uupo) Masyadong pambata ang juice. Beer. Pwede ba ang beer dito? Ay! Oo. CATHOLIC SCHOOL. Sige, iced tea na lang (kukuha ang guro ng baso) Teacher! With ice.
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Play by Aimee Rosal, Janesa Mariam Ladjiman | August 1st, 2010
Characters:
Customer: 17 year-old girl
Saleslady: in her early 20’s
Setting: Shoe section of a department store. There is a life-sized mirror beside a bench. A cashier is located two meters away from the bench.
(Ang customer naga tan-aw sa mga naka-display.)
Customer: I’m gonna buy this na talaga! My friends also told me na this is so bagay sa gown ko. Gosh! I am gonna be the most beautiful debutante, ever! (Mitawag sa saleslady sa iyang tapad) Get a new pair of this sandal nga. I don’t like to try this, baka marami na kasing sumukat nito.
Saleslady: (Pugos nga ni ngisi) Okay ma’am. Hulat lang sa kadali ma’am ha. Tan-awon sa nako sa stock room.
Customer: Don’t make tagal-tagal ha. Ayaw ko ng pinapahintay.
(Nihawa ang saleslady. Naglingkod ang customer ug gikuha sa bag ang iyang press powder. Gibutang niya ang bag sa iyang tapad. Sige na tan-aw ang customer sa iyang relo kay dugay niabot ang saleslady.)
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Play by Christine Quilisadio, Darylle Rubino, Javin Jet Tevar | August 1st, 2010
In a cafeteria two recent friends meet by chance. Ringgo, who is hard of hearing, has his hearing aid disconnected from his ear. Jords is a ‘ngo-ngo’ who seems to be confident in conversations despite his condition. He is waiting for his new girlfriend, Magda.
Ringgo: (sees Jords from afar and approaches him) Oy! Musta na man ka pre?
Jords: Aw, oki ra kaayo.
Ringgo: Abi ko’g wa na ka’y problema?
Jords: Mao gani. Wala na ko’y problema.
Ringgo: Unsa lagi tong problema preng?
Jords: Wala uy. Amaw.
Ringgo: Unsa man pud latest na balita sa imoha preng?
Jords: Mao japon, trabaho, trabaho.
Ringgo: Kinsa’y kamangon bay?
Jords: Samuka ba! Tarong ba!
Ringgo: Aw. Lamokon bitaw diri bay.
Jords: Wala’y lamok uy. Aircon man diri sa cafeteria. Mag-sige ra pud ka’g agree.
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Play by Henrietta Diana de Guzman | January 10th, 2010
MGA TAUHAN:
Maggie Dela Victoria: Labing-siyam na taong gulang na student Nurse. Maganda. Makapal kung mag make-up.
C.I. Leon De Lima: Clinical Instructor nila Maggie at Rhea. Boyfriend ni Liza. Naka-eyeglasses.
Liza Mandacawan: Girlfriend ni Leon. Pasyente sa bed A.
Nurse Tan: Ang NOD (Nurse On Duty sa eleven to seven shift) sa Delivery room
Dr. Ruiz: Ang magpapaanak sa mga pasyente.
Rhea Valera: Matalino, ngunit pangit na classmate ni Maggie.
Patient 2: Pasyente sa bed B
Patient 3: Pasyente sa bed C
Lunan at oras ng dula: Gabi. Makalat ang tatlong hospital beds sa Delivery room ng Davao Medical Center. Lahat ay busy sa pag-aasikaso ng kani-kanilang endorsement call. Si Doktor Ruiz, Nurse Tan, at C.I Leon lang ang on duty. Pupunta ang studyanteng si Rhea sa bed B at uumpisahan ang pag-assess sa kanyang pasyente. Si Leon naman ay uupo sa Nurse station table at uumpisahang i- checheck ang Student Nurse Records. Biglang bubukas ang pintuan. Mahingal-hingal na dadating si Maggie.
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Play by Nonoy Narciso | December 6th, 2009
Panahon: Gabi. Sa kwarto. Sa isang bayan. Dalawang matanda. Sila na lang dalawa ang naiwan sa bahay, sa kanilang sariling bahay. Ang mga anak nila’y nag-sarili na rin at nakapag-asawa na. Isang panahon sa isang sulok. Sa isang takdang panahon.
Mga karakter:
Lola Eneng (tipikal na matanda, ang damit duster na may long sleeve na nakasapaw at may belo para sa lamig)
Lolo Iniong (tipikal na matanda, naka pajama, naka sando at t-shirt sa loob at nakasapaw ang polong suot; may salamin at may dalang tungkod, at may tuwalya sa balikat).
Unang maririnig ang plawta pagdaan ng 16 counts. Papasok ang gitara (16 counts). Nakapwesto na si Lola Eneng at Lolo Iniong sa gitna ng entablado. Ilaw naka-dimmer lights, spot light (yellow at blue) over the head ang ilaw. Pag middle light na , makikita na sila ng tao. Maguumpisa na sa pagtimpla ng kape si Lola Eneng.
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Play by Aaron Jalalon | October 4th, 2009
Characters:
Teodor/Teddy – middle-aged guy, meat vendor and butcher
Ardong – meat butcher and delivery man
Lydia – meat vendor and mother of Ji-ji
Ji-ji – daughter of Lydia, twenty-two years old
In a market. Two meat stalls face each other on stage. A space in between serves as the pathway. One yellow light bulb hangs in each stall. Lydia and Jiji’s stall is on the left side. On their table: a weighing machine on the right side, chopping board at center, meat slabs. Jiji stands behind the table slicing meat. On her left side, Lydia spinkles water on the sliced meat slabs. Ardong stands in front of their stall putting meat slabs on the table from his big plastic container. Teddy’s table is on the right side. His table is bare except for the wooden chopping board and the butcher knife.
It is four-thirty in the morning.
Teodor ties the apron around his neck. Afterwards, he ties a towel around his head. He pours water on the surface of his table and wipes it with a clean rug. His voice has a clear accent of Bisaya, always mispronouncing the words.
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Creative Nonfiction, Play by Rowena Rose Lee | May 17th, 2009
Everyone assumes that writing is such a romantic occupation. I most certainly did—I wished with all fervent hope that I would eventually walk the path that Edgar Allan Poe, Joseph Conrad and Mary Shelley took when they made it through the annals of literary history.
In my youth, I had imagined writers cloistered away in their lavish Victorian-inspired home, dark with velvety crimson curtains and thick tapestries. Quill in hand, parchment under their elbows, these writers would look out into the vast open countryside seeing not the green landscape, but characters—fictional characters, characters of their own creation—speaking, weeping, and eventually floating back to the paper, becoming wisps of breath fashioned into the writers’ great languid scripts where both characters and writers would eventually be immortalized in written text.
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Play by Yas Ocampo | September 28th, 2008
This play was performed last February at the UP Mindanao, with Maureen Ronquillo as Veronica and Erika Navaja as Apple.
Cast of Characters:
Apple, 22 – a call center agent
Veronica, 42 – Mr. Sacks’ wife
Setting: The stage is divided into two: on one side, a table where Apple is stationed (her office desk in Davao), on another a couch and a coffee table (Veronica’s house in the United Kingdom.) It is daytime on Veronica’s side of the set and nighttime on Apple’s. Both of them are seated on their side of the stage as the play begins.
(Apple starts making a call through her cellular phone. The pauses in between her sentences must be presumed to be answered by an absent “other line.”)
Apple: Hey babe – wait, sino to? Dan? Girl ka ba? Boy. Dan. Good. Uhm. Kay Jun nga. Uhm, kasama mo ba siya, no wait (snickers), silly me, (British accent) of course kasama mo siya, duh, phone niya to. (trying to flirt with Dan) hey listen, Dan, could you be an angel and give the phone to Jun please? What do you mean he’s in the shower? Oh, he’s coming, coming out now? Oh, O.K. Kaw naman, you’re such a joker ha, naked siya ka jan. Huuuy, Jun. Sino ba yun? Ang lambot magsalita! Wala lang. (snickers.) Kumusta? Hey, listen, you free mamaya, I mean, tomorrow, when I get off work? I mean, I think I still have energy for a little, you know, breakfast. Well, you know, wala lang, I kinda miss you na kasi. I know, I know. Well, you know – ano ba to. Friendly breakfast – naman. Duh, I got over you na kaya! Treat ko. Sweldo ko kasi ngayon. I know this little place where –. Oh, okay. Oh, you’re going out tonight. Sa MTS? Kasama si Dan. Kaw talaga, tulad mo yung friend mo ah, lumalambot na ang words. Pwede sama? Joke lang. I have to work pa eh, I mean, unless you want me not to. Oh. Ba’t naman di pwede? Ah, ganon. Haaay. Wala lang, I’m so bored. Shift starts in a few minutes. But, wala lang. Huy, ang sweet niyo naman jan. Kayo na ba? Joke lang… Uy, alam mo ba – there was this one time, I was waiting for a jeep home, tapos yun, it was around 3 a. m., tapos yun, a guy there, he was asking for my number, tapos. Hello? Jun? Hello. Jun.
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Play by Guillermo Dagohoy | May 4th, 2008
Magdudula
Abogado
Doktor
Maestro
Enhinyero
Negosyante
San Miguel
San Pedro
(Mosulod si San Miguel nga nagdala sa timbangan ug si San Pedro nga nagdala og yawi.)
San Miguel: Karon Pedro, kay kita man ang gihatagan og gahom sa paghukom sa mangamatay, pinaagi sa ilang mga nabuhat sa kalibotan, ato gayod kining matngonan pag-ayo. Dili mo ablihan ang pultahan sa Langit kon dili ko pa matimbang ang ilang mga gibuhat sa kalibotan. Timbangon nato ang ilang mga maayong buhat ug mga daotang buhat. Kon bug-at ang daotang buhat, ato silang ibanlod sa Impyerno. Kon bug-at ang ilang maayong buhat kay sa daotan, ato silang pasak-on sa Langit. Kon pareho ang gibug-aton sa daotan ug maayo, ato silang ibutang sa Purgatoryo.
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SCENE: In a dim street in Quezon Blvd. Dina is leaning her back on the wall while standing. Lando, smoking a cigarette, approaches her.