For Filipino audiences, “Right here Lies Love” delivers disturbing emotional undercurrents
Right here Lies Love, which opened to critically acclaimed and sold-out crowds on the Public Theater downtown in 2013, has made it to Broadway after residencies in London and Seattle, every time increasing its residence and adjusting its immersive theatre. However solely now has it added an all-Filipino solid — its first ever on Broadway, organizers say. Additionally on board is a brand new cadre of Filipino producers, together with a Tony winner Leah SalongaPulitzer-winning writer Jose Antonio Vargascomedian Jo Koy and Grammy-winning musician HER, together with Manila-based traders.
“I simply felt a duty, to totally work together with the motherland,” mentioned the costume designer and artistic marketing consultant. Clint RamosA native of Cebu, Philippines, he has labored on the present since its inception. He’s now additionally a producer.
“Having cultural capital from the motherland, but additionally monetary capital from the motherland, the authors and possession of the present appear so carefully intertwined. It feels nice,” he mentioned.
The present’s narrative framework stays unchanged: it nonetheless parodies the luminosity of disco – as first girl, Imelda was a resident of Studio 54 – to replicate Marcos’ dizzying rise to energy, the flamboyant lure of privilege and wealth that led a pair to splurge their homeland into huge debt, and dwell as lavishly as their constituents suffered.
