I aspire to shoehorn giant robots and a dance number into everything I make.” |
Kenneth's plays are written to bring the spectacle of high concept science fiction onto the theatre stage, while imagining the disparate futures the Philippine people might carve out.
Their first play to be staged, Going Up, depicted the struggle of dealing with Southeast Asian filial expectations while bounding through an ecologically devastated hellscape in twenty foot tall 'mech suits. |
A play about the visceral appeal of war and near-impossibility of peace.
The crew of Nueva Manila’s last intrastellar warship the Dakilang Mandirigma must decide how far to take the orders of the capitalist theocrats they ostensibly serve. If they can put down their weapons in time, they might get the chance to build a community with their former enemies where all people can be happy, safe and free.
Developed with the support of the Performance Project@University Settlement and public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.
The crew of Nueva Manila’s last intrastellar warship the Dakilang Mandirigma must decide how far to take the orders of the capitalist theocrats they ostensibly serve. If they can put down their weapons in time, they might get the chance to build a community with their former enemies where all people can be happy, safe and free.
Developed with the support of the Performance Project@University Settlement and public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.
A play about time and love and the many ways you’d die to have more of both.
Se Cheng desperately tries to make the most out of what little time he has left with Ihuoma, all the while dying to find out that he has all the time left in the world.
Se Cheng desperately tries to make the most out of what little time he has left with Ihuoma, all the while dying to find out that he has all the time left in the world.
A play about how colonialism infects our creation myths, making truly happy endings unimaginable.
Watched over by a three story tall corpse god, Balan assembles their blade by taking the lives and weapons of their former friends. They may see their journey culminate in a kind of freedom, but only if the audience lets them.
Winner: Stanley and Evelyn Lipkin Award for Playwriting 2023
Watched over by a three story tall corpse god, Balan assembles their blade by taking the lives and weapons of their former friends. They may see their journey culminate in a kind of freedom, but only if the audience lets them.
Winner: Stanley and Evelyn Lipkin Award for Playwriting 2023