Dolly de Leon’s lacerating solitude in ‘Request sa Radyo’

What would we learn if we shut up and just watched people? Observed them? It’s said that language is what separates people from all other animals. And by that, they meant verbal language: words, spoken or written.

And so the idea of a wordless play may strike some as absurd. Risky, for sure.

Request sa Radyo is a Filipino adaptation of the 1973 play Request Concert by the German playwright Franz Xaver Kroetz. It deals with loneliness, and what could be lonelier than not having words ...