A hunger for history: a study of Ma-Yi Theater Group's Project: Balangiga.

From: MELUS | Date: March 22, 2004| Author: Barrios, Joi | Copyright information

During the open forum held after each performance of the play Project: Balangiga by Ma-Yi Theater Company (New York City, August 2002), several young Filipino Americans profusely thanked the company for talking about the Philippine-American War (1899-1902). (1) These Filipino Americans, most of whom were college students, did not know much about the war, nor did they have an extensive knowledge of the history of colonization in the Philippines. Current studies in Filipino American ...

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