Myna Herra<\/p>\n
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We all have something to hide\u2014may it be a long-kept family secret, or a love letter from an old fling. But for four Filipinos living in modern-day Tokyo, it is the fact that they are illegal settlers in a foreign land.<\/p>\n
The play opens with a Filipino woman (who became a Japanese citizen after marrying her Japanese husband), Linda, scurrying about inside her home\u2014leafing through letters she received for the tenants she keeps in her building. Later, two of her Filipino friends (who are illegal settlers, changing jobs and locations to avoid being deported by the immigration office) come to visit her and they sit and have a happy lunch together. That is, until one of her tenants\u2014another Filipino named Rodel, comes in and declares that he had just killed a man.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s a wonderfully written play\u2014opening with a calm atmosphere, then shifting into a happy one in the middle\u2014then drastically changing into a tense, thrilling one during the climax. It ends the way it started, calm\u2014yet the atmosphere of tension still remains.<\/p>\n
Though it is a work of fiction, it is sadly happening everywhere\u2014not just with Filipinos but with other people as well, applying in different jobs just to avoid deportation. It\u2019s more of a slice of life\u2014peppered with the elements of Drama.<\/p>\n
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