Wedding dance story by alberto florentinos biography

  • This short story explores a Filipino cultural tradition where a man must remarry if he cannot have a child with his wife.
  • The document describes a story called "The Wedding Dance" involving three characters: Lumnay, Awiyao, and Madulimay.
  • The Dancers is a story/drama written by Alberto S.Florentino Jr. It is all about a typical Filipino family composed of Father, Mother and Children or Siblings.

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    The Dancers bygd Alberto S

    FATHER: Look. I spent thirty years of my life driving a calesa. I'm entitled to a little rest at the end of my days. You don't want me to enter heaven panting like a tired dog, do you? MOTHER: All right. If you don't want to work, don't. But stop driving Nenita to work. FATHER: But what's wrong with that? Sooner or later everybody has to work for a living. It's about time she did. MOTHER: Nenita fryst vatten only sixteen. She's still a baby. FATHER: She's seventeen-going on eighteen. MOTHER: Sixteen or seventeen or eighteen, she's still a baby. FATHER: (mimicking her) She's still a baby, she's still a baby. I'm telling you, she's old enough to have a baby. MOTHER: Tomas, how dare you talk of your own daughter as if she were a woman of the streets! FATHER: (appeasing her) All right. I only wanted to say she's old enough to be earning a living. We're getting old and it's about time our children start taki

  • wedding dance story by alberto florentinos biography

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    The Dancers

  • 1. PHILIPPINE LITERATURE GROUP III

  • 2. The dancers by: alberto s. florentino jr.

  • 3. The Dancers is a story/drama written by Alberto S.Florentino Jr. It is all about a typical Filipino family composed of Father, Mother and Children or Siblings. It is a story of a poor family who struggles in the harshness of poverty. Because of poverty, Mang Tomas (the father) wants his youngest daughter- Nenita to join her sister Rita and make a living at a young age as a club dancer. The older brother –Tony does not approve to his father’s decision and the youngest sibling –Juanito seems become submissive and no longer argue with them. As well as their Mother does not approve to her husband’s decision, but then Mang Tomas persistently insist because for him he has the right and he has the authority to decide for his daughters being their father.

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  • 6.  Mang Tomas (static) PHYSICAL: • Not that old to stop working. • Strong and healthy. • He is a man. • Forty

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    INTRODUCTION

               

    The play itself is a good portrayal of what could be the effects of poverty to Filipino families. I chose the production because among the six productions it is the play worth watching for. The splendid performance of every actor in the play added color and intensity of the play.

                Alberto Florentino Jr.’s The Dancer is about a poor family struggling each day for survival. Tony, the eldest son drives jeepney to support the family while the mother works in the market. The indolent father of the family pushes the eldest daughter to dance in the salon just to earn money. At the end of the play, the father forces another daughter to go with her sister in the salon and dance while the mother is weeping over her daughters.

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    The actors and actresses of the pl