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Celebrating 25 years of Philippine Theater!

FACT SHEET

Nick Pichay’s
ISANG ARAW SA KARNABAL
Directed by Chris Millado

Two friends, who each have a family member believed

to have “disappeared,” decide to spend a day in Enchanted
Empire. They amble along the amusements unmindful of the strange shadows and silent screams
following at their heels.

When twilight gives in to the dark, they discover a hideous roller coaster horror ride that has
mutilated the lives of innocent people. Proud, damaged and unheeding, the two friends let
themselves be lured by the sweet promise of harmless fun, only to find themselves booked in the
longest ride to hell.

“Come ride, the Mother all horror. Twist of fate… Mutilation to all. The up and downs will bring
you fun. We give you fear, where once there none.”

CAST : TONI Skyzx Labastilla

ZALDY Paolo O’Hara

Nick Pichay’s
Tres Ataques de Corazon
Directed by Vince de Jesus

A trio of flavors that explore the many experiences that reveal

the mysterious ways of the heart.

The Heart of a Cook: Che Un, a Chinese stowaway cook remembers the poverty of home from a
breakfast of vegetables made from discarded ingredients. His heart reconnects like an electric
current to the anchovy-flavored world of familial love and despair. Clutching his heart, he reels from
the memory like a gourmand who had too much cholesterol.
Ang Puso ng Bading: Laurence Cruz, an unsuspecting man in his prime, discovers that lurking
under his buffed body is a stronger heart that beats differently from the rest despite his claim that
love, gay or straight, is the same.
Ang Puso ni Juancho Pancho: Juacho Pancho, the embodiment of many men of normal means,
line up in the Embassy at Roxas Boulevard to try their chances of living their extraordinary dreams.
Many hearts sacrificed for one so heartless. How long will one offer a love continuously rejected? If
only there could be a change of heart.

CAST: CHE UN Jef-Henson Dee

LAURENCE CRUZ Ariel Diccion
JUANCHO PANCHO Paolo Rodriguez
ABOUT THE PLAYWRIGHT
Nicolas B. Pichay is a poet and playwright whose works have been published and staged in
and outside the Philippines. He was inducted to the Palanca Hall of Fame in 2007. Nick was in
New York in 2010 a recipient of a grant from the Asian Cultural Council. He sees this play as a
bitter-sweet homage to death and memory.