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In the time of political correctness, comedy must be the one thing that is hard for anyone to do. Well, unless you are thick-skinned enough to withstand any form of bashing (not even criticism).
It was another time for another run in
Manila for one of the most resounding names in theater's running
history as M Butterfly hit the stages of Maybank Performing Arts
Theater in Bonifacio Global City. Inspired by
Giaccomo Puccini's opera, the two-act play is loosely based on events
surrounding a 1986 espionage trial about a my serious Chinese opera
singer and a French Diplomat.
BINONDO appears to be another kind of love-in-the-odds story where the obvious ultra-conservative cultural differences has hampering lovers, and we don't mean those usual parents-are-against-his/her-lover approach here, but of also how historical events such as Industrial Revolution and Martial Law has sting the characters and swing everyone's fate elsewhere.
In over two years, the musical play Changing Partners received multiple success in both theater and film. And just this past May, the hardworking men and women of the said musical returned to PETA Theater in Quezon City for a two weekend-run.