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NEW YORKER IN TONDO

BY: Marcelino Agana, Jr.

THE CAST:

Kikay / Francesca – a Tondo girl who has just returned from New YorkMrs. M . / Aling Atang – Kikay’s mother 

Tony – Kikay’s childhood friend in Tondo, engaged to Kikay before she left for New York  

Totoy - childhood friend

Nena – childhood friend

SETTING:

In Tondo, Kikya’s house. 

ACTS AND SCENES:

Only One Act and 7 Scenes

DIALOGUE AND DIRECTIONS:

(See attached play script)

THE PLOT:

It is a story about a girl named Kikay who goes to New York and fell in love with it. She acquires all the

New Yorkish things - style, looks, language and manners. These things are very obvious when she arrives

iin Tondo.

Aling Atang, mother of Kikay, has been carried away by her daughters way of living. She tries to conversewith everybody in broken English.

Tony, childhood sweetheart of Kikay, decides to visit and catch things up with her friend. He is a simple

guy who got secretly engaged with their other childhood friend, Nena. He to

Nena is a tomboyish type of girl. On her visit in Kikay's house, she finds her friend different and weird.

She gets irritated and even imitates Kikay's ways.

Totoy, the Tondo "canto boy" is their other friend who is funny and has a secret love for Nena which has

only been revealded when the two females had a clash.

Near the end, the secret love of the characters in the story is revealded. And the two pairs end up in

each other's arms. Kikay is back to her old self -- simple and kind. Most of all, the Filipino value learned

by the protagonist which is "there is no place like home", is a lesson on love of country and its culture.

THE THEME:

There is no place like home.