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| Nina Lee Aquino |
Factory resumes with mixed hand
by Jason Booker
[This article has been corrected]
Every Letter Counts, the opening play in the Factory Theatre season, takes its name from Scrabble. You know, the game you used to play with your grandparents: crossword-style board, double word scores and those numbered letter tiles.
Every Letter Counts, the opening play in the Factory Theatre season, takes its name from Scrabble. You know, the game you used to play with your grandparents: crossword-style board, double word scores and those numbered letter tiles.
In Nina Lee Aquino’s latest work, the clues become a bit cryptic and the game-players remain enigmatic though the game play is enjoyable.
Taken from Aquino’s own background as granddaughter niece to assassinated Filipino politician Benigno “Ninoy” Aquino, Jr., Every Letter Counts explores the relationship between six-year-old Bunny and her ancestors, both in 1983 when she met Ninoy for the only time and the present.
