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The play "The Dancers" is about a poor Filipino family suffering from the father Mang Tomas' laziness. He forces his children, especially daughters Rita and Nenita, to work as dancers in a bar to earn money for him despite their mother's objections. When Rita's friend insults her brother Juanito, Mang Tomas tries to make Nenita also dance at the bar, leading to a fight where Tony is hit and the mother discovers Nenita preparing to go to the bar against her will while searching for the missing Juanito. The play conveys how poverty can lead to unplanned decisions that negatively impact family relationships and disregard people's feelings and choices.

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The Dancers by Alberto Florentino PDF

The play "The Dancers" is about a poor Filipino family suffering from the father Mang Tomas' laziness. He forces his children, especially daughters Rita and Nenita, to work as dancers in a bar to earn money for him despite their mother's objections. When Rita's friend insults her brother Juanito, Mang Tomas tries to make Nenita also dance at the bar, leading to a fight where Tony is hit and the mother discovers Nenita preparing to go to the bar against her will while searching for the missing Juanito. The play conveys how poverty can lead to unplanned decisions that negatively impact family relationships and disregard people's feelings and choices.

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By Alberto S. Florentino, Jr.

Father - Mang Tomas

Mother - Aling Rosa

Eldest Son – Tony

Eldest Daughter - Rita

Youngest Daughter – Nenita

Youngest Sibling - Juanito

Friend of Rita - Elena


Lifestyle of poor Filipino family and realization
how women are treated.
The play “The Dancers” is about a family suffering from
poverty because of the father (Mang Tomas) who is
supposed to work for his family but he is so lazy and he
always complain of his weak body and pretends that he
cannot work anymore. He forced his children to work for
the family and earn a living. As for the eldest son (Tony),
he is a jeepney driver where Mang Tomas gets the money
from, but it is just used for liquor and for going in a bar. As
for the eldest daughter (Rita), she was forced by Mang
Tomas to work as a dancer in a bar for the family and earn
some money for him. But surprisingly, at the latter part of
the play, Mang Tomas forced her youngest daughter Nenita,
a sixteen year old teenager to work for him as a dancer in
the bar together with her sister Rita. Their mother (Aling
Rosa) was not able to stop his husband (Mang Tomas) with
his decision but to cry.
The message of the play is very much timely in
the current situation of our country. And the
message it conveys is really true in our
present situation.
It’s a story of a poor family where women are
engraved to dance in bars such as Salon to
earn money for a living. Rita is the eldest
daughter and has been influenced by his
father to dance at Salon at an early age of 16
accompanied by Juanito her youngest
brother. Though with objection from her
mother, it seems that she can’t do anything
for she needs to work for the sake of her
family.
Since their father cannot and doesn’t want to
work anymore for he considers himself
useless, he let his children work for earnings
and expenses. Then a situation overrun when
Juanito doesn’t want anymore to go with
Rita. Elena teased and insulted Juanito which
makes the matter worst. They fight and
when Elena was scared by Juanito, she ran
outside crying.
Since nobody accompanies Rita to go at the
Salon, Mang Tomas decided to let Nenita go
with her sister and work. Tony objects and
stops his father but he was hit in face and
sent Tony bleeding. When their mother came
in from Quiapo church and notices a
conversation going on and sees Nenita
dressed-up. She doesn’t allow her younger
daughter to go to such place and expose to a
place where women dance for pleasure and
money. But at the end, she has no choice for
Juanito is missing and no one will accompany
Rita to Salon. At the end the mother
becomes restless and try to look for Juanito
with a burden in heart.
As for the message of the play, we can say that
the theme the play wants to convey is that
anything can happen or anything might lead
to such unplanned decisions in life because
of poverty. As a person, we should not let
poverty hinder us from achieving a good life.
And also as a human, we should take into
consideration the people that might be
affected of such decisions we made.
We should not dictate other people whether
they are an immediate family member
because they still have their own feelings
and decision in life that we should
understand. This was evident when the
father dictated and made a decision without
considering the feelings of his daughter
Nenita. We should have enough perseverance
if we really want to make a difference and
not be dictated by someone else’s decision.
We should stand to what we think is right for
us.

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