Learning How to Read by Moonlight

Under the moonlight, six-year-old Eddie imagines a dragon eating moons. His mother prays to a statue of Santo Niño. His father waits alone in Manila for their daily phone calls. Songs from a mythical giant turtle travel across oceans but are drowned out by the voices of Presidents Duterte and Trump on television and across the internet. As fantasy and reality become indistinguishable, a young, immigrant Filipino family is forced to confront the one question it can never answer: “Where do I call home?” The play is performed in English and Tagalog.