NEW YORKER IN TONDO
By: Marcelino Agana, Jr.
New Yorker in Tondo is a story of a girl named Kikay who went to New York to study Hair Culture and Beauty Science. Upon going home after a year, she acquires all the New Yorkish things like style, language, looks and manner. She even influenced her mother with her way of living.
One day, Tony visited her for he heard that Kikay has already arrived. Tony was Kikay&#;s sweetheart and they got secretly engaged before Kikay left. While waiting for Kikay to wake up, Totoy and Nena also came. Totoy and Nena were also Kikay&#;s and Tony&#;s childhood friend.
Upon waking up, Kikay immediately entertained her friends. They are all shock of what they&#;ve seen. Kikay was transformed into a different girl. She doesn&#;t want to be called as Kikay instead she wants everybody to call her Francesca. She tells them everything she experienced in New York and she even keep on comparing New York from Tondo.
When Kikay and Tony h
Marcelino Agana Jr. was a playwright who wrote Filipino comedies that captured the realistic lives of Filipinos. His humor and irony were shown in one of his most famous comedy plays entitled “The New Yorker in Tondo," which is a classically satirical one-act play and was first performed by the Far Eastern University (FEU) Drama Guild in Manila, which paved the way for it to become popular since then. This play has piqued the interest of many over the years, and it has been performed on numerous stages, including in schools.
The New Yorker in Tondo is about a girl named Kikay who just got back home from America to her motherland, the Philippines, particularly in the area of Tondo. Kikay fell in love with the foreign lifestyle and forgot about her homeland after more than a year in America. She changes her personality, her ways, her lifestyle, and even her name. Additionally, the story revolves around Kikay’s reconciliation with her childhood friends, which creates many revelations and changes in her character later on in the story. These revelations bring her back to reality and her roots.
Agana’s creativity truly shines through in his play, which proves why it w
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"New Yorker in Tondo" is a classic Filipino Play by Marcelino Agana, Jr. It is a satire written in the 50's. It is a story about a girl named Kikay who goes to New York and fell in love with it. She acquires all the New Yorkish things - style, looks, language and manners. These things are very obvious when she arrives in the Philippines specifically in Tondo.
Aling Atang, mother of Kikay, has been carried away by her daughters way of living. She tries to converse with everybody in broken English.
Tony, childhood sweetheart of Kikay, decides to visit and catch things up with her friend. He is a simple guy who got secretly engaged with their other childhood friend, Nena.
Nena is a tomboyish type of girl. On her visit in Kikay's house, she finds her friend different and weird. She gets irritated and even imitates Kikay's ways.
Totoy, the Tondo "canto boy" is their other friend who is funny and has a secret love for Nenan which has only been revealded when the two females had a clash.
Near the end, the secret love of the characters in the story is revealded. And the two pairs end up in each other's arms. Kikay is back to her old self -- simple
New Yorker in Tondo
By :Marcelino Agana Jr.
New Yorker in Tondo was written by Marcelino Agana Jr. is a classic Filipino plays .One of the popular Filipino comedy plays that have been produced in the Philippines.
New Yorker in Tondo is a play about a girl named Kikay who has fallen in love with the concrete jungle, New York, and has forgotten about her native land, the Philippines. It portrays the actuality how most Filipinos likely to forgot their real identity once they move overseas or been oversees.
In the story, Kikay neglects her motherland and changes her ways, even her name, and adopts the lavish lifestyle of a New Yorker. She willingly leaves friends and vows, and her lover. As fate brings her back to her roots, she encounters different conflicts with the characters and in the end is found struggling to gain her lover back. Reconciliation awakens her to the reality.
“New Yorker in Tondo” accurately depicts the average
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