Dramas of Diaspora, Theatres of Travel
摘要
This chapter connects the contextual, affective, and aesthetic dimensions of all five examined plays. It offers a typology of Overseas Filipino Workers, particularly their bodies and biographies, as found in the dramatic texts and stage performances from the 1970s to 2010. It provides a revaluation of the problems and potentials in scripting and staging labor migration and diaspora from the Philippines. Furthermore, it reinforces the overall claim that theatre and performance has served and continues to serve as a creative method of gathering, making sense, and examining the realities of labor migration and their attendant questions of identity, belonging, and bodies in transit.