Forever ∞

     Forever is an old-fashioned melodrama set in the ‘50s. This play is about love, maturity, and self-sacrifice. It is also about closure and healing, listening and accepting. It is a play about people who realize that letting go is more sublime than holding on.

     The story revolves around Maria Teresa and Ernesto. They have that kind of love everyone would want to have. However, every relationship will always be tested. Ernesto abandoned  Maria Teresa with Erenesting, their son, over a year old for another woman. Eight years after, he came home to revisit Maria Teresa to ask for forgiveness and another chance as well as to give justice to what really happened eight years ago but for Maria Teresa, it's too late. Too late for another chance, forgiveness maybe, but for another chance for them to be husband and wife, not anymore. For her, it was over and everything was left in the past, buried. After eight years of loneliness and tears, humiliation and heartbreak, she just couldn't take Ernesto back. And so they parted ways, for good, forever. :(

Again, photos grabbed from Little Boy Productions

     I admit, that wasn't the kind of end I expected. I even argued with him telling him that they'll end up together, forever. But instead, they had that sad, tragic end. Oh how I wish Maria Teresa gave him a chance and accepted him but she didn't. I may not understand the reason why but what I understand is that she was hurt. Her heart's busted, broken and torn apart into tiny pieces. One thing I learned about this play is that, sometimes there will be no more second chances. All you have is now, so make the most out of it. Spend every time you have with the one you love and cherish every moment you share so when by the time you have to let go of one another, you're left with no regrets. The play also points out that letting go is more sublime than holding on especially when there's nothing left to hold on to. That in every relationship, love may never be enough. Commitment and faithfulness must come along with it. Committed and faithful heart may be shaken but it will never fall and be blinded by temptations. ☺

New Yorker in Tondo ☻

     This is a typical tale on how one is greatly influenced by the Western world that brought changes to someone through its ways, mannerism and even its attitude that made one a stranger to its native land. The story is mainly about a woman named Kikay who by fortune, was able to live in New York for almost a year. When Kikay returned to his native land in Tondo, she's already a transformed woman and everyone was greatly surprised. She isn't the way she used to be. She now has unmistakably American mannerism and attitude. Confrontations were made when her friends Nena, Totoy and Tony came to visit her. They dislike how greatly Kikay has changed. When Nena and Tony's engagement was revealed, Franchesca was gnashing her teeth out of anger and broke down. The feelings she thought that were faded suddenly made her realize that they were really not. She was just blinded by the fortune and the life she had at New York. Sooner, Kikay then recognized that she still love Tony and she wanted him back badly. However, Tony refused. She was no longer her childhood sweetheart Kikay, but Franchesca, the Americanized woman who revisits Tondo. Kikay humbled herself and explained everything to Tony. Shortly, Tony accepted her back not as Franchesca but as Kikay. And just like any other tale, they lived happily ever after by Kikay getting Tony while Nena ended up with Totoy. ♥


Photos taken during the play in chronological order. ☻
Grabbed from Little Boy Production

     And asking about what's best about this play? It's love, family and friendship. That despite the money and status, you can still be happy. There's nothing more happier than having a real friend, family's unconditional love and above all, faithful and loving companion for the years ahead. ☺