Anthropology (Barefoot Theatre Collaborative)

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AI programmer Merril (Jenny Jamora) is grieving over the disappearance of her sister Angie (Maronne Cruz) and to deal with that grief she ends up coding a computer simulation like ChatGPT, but in Angie’s likeness. As she talks to the AI that looks and sounds like her sister every day, she ends up obsessing once more about the circumstances of her disappearance. One day, Angie the AI tells Merril that the real Angie might not be dead after all, and promises to sift through all her available data and patterns found therein in an effort to find her. Merril’s ex-girlfriend Raquel (Mikkie Bradshaw-Volante) questions the consequences of relying too much on such a program to process her grief, but Merril isn’t listening. When the AI asks Merril to call her estranged mother Brin (Jackie Lou Blanco) so she could get some data from her and her interactions with Angie before she disappeared, they find new clues that might just refute her declared death.

Bar Boys: The Musical (Barefoot Theatre Collaborative)

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Four friends bond over MMORPG and promise to support one another as they take their adventures to a totally different territory. LAW SCHOOL. Erik Vicencio (Benedix Ramos) is uncertain because his security guard father might not be able to financially support another four years of university studies. Torran Garcia (Jerom Canlas) is pushing through because this has always been his parents’ dream for him and he wants to make them proud. Joshua Zuniga (Omar Uddin) decides to go ahead with the plan but drops out early because of his disillusionment with the system. Christian Abueva (Alex Diaz) strives hard in an effort to prove himself to his estranged father. As they take on their four years of law school that will serve as their preparation for the bar, Erik’s father gets caught up in a huge case against his employers and the three future lawyers immediately give their all to the case, under the tutelage of their professor Justice Hernandez (Sheila Francisco).