Filipino theatre artists perform a “La Pieta” scene during a short musical about the killings under the Philippine government’s anti-drug campaign, in Pandacan city, metro Manila, Philippines April 2, 2017. REUTERS/Romeo Ranoco
(Ronn Bauista’s and Neil Jerome Morales’s article appeareon Yahoo News, 4/24; via the Drudge Report.)
MANILA (Reuters) – A Philippine youth theater club staged a musical at a Manila park on Sunday, challenging President Rodrigo Duterte’s bloody war on drugs.
The 20-minute show features a casket salesman whose funeral parlor is doing brisk business as corpses pile up.
But the salesman and his friends end up as statistics, falling to vigilante-style killings that have gripped the Southeast Asian nation and alarmed the international community.
“The play talks about the problem in the community with the war on drugs and the irony of it, that a few earn money amid this war and all the killings,” artistic director Jessie Villabrille told Reuters.
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Photo: Reuters
