Here Lies Love Play Analysis

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As an actor, I venerate authentic storytelling. I love being transported completely into the world of a show, emerging at the end with an understanding of the characters and the events to which I feel personally connected. One time when I felt this way after seeing a show was seeing the musical Here Lies Love at the ACT Theatre in Seattle. It’s strange for me to refer to this production as a musical, though it is almost entirely sung-through, because it felt more like an experience. The show tells the rags-to-riches story of Imelda Marcos, a Filipino woman who goes from a peasant to the wife of a dictator. This specific production took place in a proscenium theatre, but every detail of the space was transformed. It was modeled after a 1980s

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