PeyPerByuh. A one act play performed at UP Dulaang Laboratoryo

Peeping into the lives of a couple who are active on pay per view, with two actors playing different roles with alter identifies. Theater arts actor students Moi and Sam capture the intricacies of the complicated characters through shifting personalities and transitions, demonstrating their acting abilities as Lalaki and Babae, Joy, the emerging star, and Direck, and couples Bettina and Jumong.

The story evolved as a well-crafted theatrical show in a non-traditional small stage setting (bleacher type seating with about 50 attendees). The production crew creatively recreated online coverage on LED displays, broadcasting users' private and sexual lives as if they were open books.

People engage in online sex, subscribe to 24x7 live camera for a variety of psychological and complex reasons among them curiosity, thrill, emotional, pleasure, loneliness, need for control. The two essayed these in a variety of roles they portrayed.

The play is frightening, provocative, and fascinating, with the two theater arts students acting out the characters' complex emotional and social relationships to express the story's building climax and resolve. Their performances capture the tension, contradictions, and dishonesty created by the circumstance.

Both confronted intense conflicts with escalating confrontational moments as individuals and couples portraying their alter selves. Up until a certain point, they had identified a way out of the contracted scenario. Redeeming themselves, they found that the most intimate moment is one kept sacred between two people, rather than one shared with millions and profited from.

Relevant currently particularly to the Gen Zs, millennials, active on X, Telegram, Tevi, Live TikTok and the marginalized, PayPerByuh underscores the moral victory of choosing authentic connection over commodified intimacy, while highlighting their journey from exploitation back to genuine human dignity.

While PeyPerByuh subscribers follow the personal and intimate lives of Lalaki played by Moi Gealogo and Babae by Sam Marasigan, we inside the UP Dulaang Laboratory on rainy premier matinee show track their challenges, delights, tragedies just a stone's throw apart much like watching a live show.

Thanks direk Pat Maliwat, writer Imuthis and the production team for letting us in the lab and into their lives.

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