This coming June 7, 2025, Tanghalang Lykeion, LPU Cavite’s official theater company, will stage an adaptation of Paz Márquez-Benítez’s 1925 short story Dead Stars for a one-night-only engagement. The show was previously staged last April 29 and May 3 at the LPU Cavite Auditorium and is back again for a rerun as Tanghalang Lykeion’s season-ender and as a celebration of the short story’s 100th year anniversary since its publication.
About Dead Stars
The story is set during the apex of American colonial power in the Philippines where Alfredo Salazar, a 30-year-old lawyer, struggles with unfulfilled love and the weight of societal expectations as his engagement to lawyer and socialite Esperanza Laurel collides with his lingering infatuation for aspiring bodabil star Julia Salas, ultimately reflecting on the fleeting nature of desire and the illusion of happiness. The play’s themes of love, duty, and the quiet ache of choices left unmade take center stage against an impressionist narrative that explores how grandeur and great suffering often coexist in a country grappling with its identity.
The cast features Khiro Arbiz and Matthew Trinidad as Alfredo Salazar, Ma. Arra Cecilia Lison and Rania Ameri Asong as Esperanza Laurel, and Hannah Charisse Magat and Koleen Edanielle Odiamar as Julia Salas with stage management by Yureika Khalee Pillo and John Jhared Plandes.
Dead Stars opens this June 7, 2025 at the LPU Cavite Auditorium at 10:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m. Tickets are priced at P100 for LPU students, employees, and alumni and P150 for non-LPU. You may visit Tanghalang Lykeion on Facebook, Instagram, and Tiktok at @tanghalanglykeion for more information. Proceeds will go to LPU Cavite’s Community Outreach and Service Learning (COSeL) and its beneficiaries.
LPU Tickets: https://forms.gle/c7HxKV8bnvTbcT9F6
Non-LPU Tickets: https://forms.gle/ghtkzHUKXGeJy1zr5
For more details, you may send Tanghalang Lykeion a message here.
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