PLAY REVIEW

RATED: PG PLAY REVIEW Bautista, Alejandro Anton Contreras, Daniel John Pinoy, Alyssa Nicole Tiu, John Benedict

INTRODUCTION Rated: PG is a play that is part of PETA's ARTS Zone project and aims to teach positive discipline through the arts. Written by Liza Magtoto and directed by Mae Quesada-Medina. Rated: PG captures the audience both young and old alike. It presents practices and pre-conceptions, and encourages viewers and creates awareness on how to raise children at home and in schools. It gives children a perspective on what their parents are going through and gives them a better understanding. It also teaches the parents to try and understand what goes on in the minds of their children. There is no handbook on how to raise up a child, besides, in the end they would be the ones to choose which path to go, but you would need to explain to them with what is right and what is wrong. It promotes a culture of respect for the dignity of children upholds their right to protection from all forms of violence.

SETTING This play is set somewhere in the Philippines but does not say exact location. The only scene that has a place on it was the school and their house. They used special effects and lightings to make the show lively. The play was successful because they were able to perform the play well. And deliver the message of the story successfully.

CHARACTERS Joselle is a loving, amazing and hardworking mother. She showed how difficult to be one. She is also an entrepreneurial multi-tasking mother of two . Romy is the husband of Joselle and the father of Rosalie and Tonton. He is always preoccupied with his job and leaves the children's moral upbringing to his wife. Rosalie/Sally is the daughter of Joselle and Romy, a teenager. She has her own concerns like an upcoming streetdance competition. Tonton is an elementary student. He is the youngest. Tonton gets into a fight at school he even answers back his parents.

PLOT SUMMARY It is a glimpse of a real life. This is the story of Joselle, a mother struggling to make their lives better and raising up her two children, Tonton and Rosalie. When the opportunity to work abroad knocked, she is torn between the decision to enable her to provide more for her family and to be able to stay at home and see to it that her children grow up well, which she is still unsure if she is doing it the right way. The play started where joselle being accompanied by her children, is trying to fixing the items she will be selling. As her youngest son, Tonton is playing with his friends Joselle got really annoyed by the noise they are making and started getting angry and hits Tonton. A customer sees what she did and told her that hitting her son is not a solution in trying to discipline a child. After a while Joselle's friend Inday came over and offered her a job in Barcelona in which told her how much she could earn if she accepted her offer.

Joselle accepted the offer and started the process of acquiring different documents and requirements in order for her to work in Barcelona. In doing so, joselle and her husband Romy are having a difficult time attending to they're children's needs and starts having arguments. Sally being the eldest child is not responsible enough in taking care of her younger brother ton-ton. Joselle and her daughter Rosalie had an argument because Roselie wasn't able to join a contest which her classmates participated and what angered her more is when she found out that they won in her absence. Her father Romy intervened but it only made matters worse.

Sally and Tonton is having a conversation about their parents Romy and Joselle. Sally was telling her younger brother on how bad she feels about their parents and the way they were treating them. Then her younger brother Tonton asked her if she loves him. Having able to hear the conversation Romy and Joselle came to a realization on how to make things better for their family. Joselle decided not to push through in going to Barcelona to work but instead she wanted to stay and make sure to take care of her children more to the delight of Sally and Tonton.

THEME The central idea of this play is showing hard the parent is working to make their child’s life better. Love and affection cannot be manifested through hurt and abuse. We must not confuse discipline with pain. As we safe guard children’s right to be protected from any form of violence and abuse.

CONFLICT Parents treat their child badly and avoids what they want to do and children talk to their parents impolitely.

REACTION Watching the play is highly enjoyable. It is well worth entertaining. The play had a very strong casts. The music and the lyrics touched everybody’s heart. It aimed for the right emotions. The lines and characterizations are very well played. The acting was impressive like they are really a family and on how parents and siblings treat each other. The play is simple and at the same time you will learn a lot of things that you can apply to yourself. It delves into the psyche and developmental stage of a child so that a better understanding is reached between parent and child. This play gave a lot of messages about family.

The production including the costumes was very simple and the set was versatile. The acting was also very good, but the children acted very superb. They stand out in the play. The play showed people and things as they are in real life.

LESSONS LEARNED ❖ We must love and respect our parents for they are the reason we are here today. They are doing everything and striving hard in order to give us a better future. ❖ There are so many ways to discipline a child. Hitting a child in order to discipline him may do more harm than good. It also emphasizes that every child has a right to safety and protection against violence and abuse. Violence is never a solution to get things done, most specially in trying to discipline a child. Love, affection and communication is the best way in raising a child. ❖ We must follow what is best for us and do what parents had told us. ❖ Everything will be solved if we talk to each other as a family. ❖ Show gratitude. If you find yourself struggling to get your family on board, remember that modeling behaviours is a good place to your heart. ❖ Always listen to your parents. Love them because they are not going to be with you forever ❖ Always respect them and obey them when they asked you to do something.