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Two weekends ago, the family went out to watch a stage play and to have dinner out. We are, nowadays, usually homebodies when there are no occasions, so this was a rare random family bonding event.

We watched KAOS at Resorts World Manila. It was a spectacular excuse for a stage play. It manages to entertain audiences (me, included) with all its stunts, acrobatics and extravagance with such a lame and uncreative love story that will surely bore you if not for all the magic, the live beasts and the pomp and glamour of a multinational hodgepodge of a cast. That being said, KAOS is actually a circus masquerading as a play. It bills itself, though, as giving audiences an experience of Broadway and Las Vegas.

We had early dinner at ClawDaddy’s at Bonifacio High Street in Fort Bonifacio, Taguig afterwards.

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Last Friday night, I went with some fraternity brothers to the Ayala Museum in Makati to see a special staging of “Ako si Ninoy,” a musical performed by the Philippine Stagers Foundation. It is, as its title suggests, a stage play about the late Benigno “Ninoy” Aquino, Jr., and how his heroism is reflected in the lives of several individuals in the present time–a school teacher, a teen actor, a farmer activist, a labor union organizer, and a migrant worker.

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