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    This play explores the challenges of positive discipline faced by a mother, Joselle, as she considers working abroad to support her family while also caring for her children. The play examines Joselle's dilemma through her interactions with her husband and teenage daughter, portraying the emotional toll of parenting decisions. Through its script, direction, music and performances, the play effectively conveys this message to both parents and children in a fun rather than preachy way. The cast delivers intensely genuine performances through their body language and emotions, helping the audience feel fully immersed in the story.

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    This play explores the challenges of positive discipline faced by a mother, Joselle, as she considers working abroad to support her family while also caring for her children. The play examines Joselle's dilemma through her interactions with her husband and teenage daughter, portraying the emotional toll of parenting decisions. Through its script, direction, music and performances, the play effectively conveys this message to both parents and children in a fun rather than preachy way. The cast delivers intensely genuine performances through their body language and emotions, helping the audience feel fully immersed in the story.

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    Activity 2

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    This play explores the challenges of positive discipline faced by a mother, Joselle, as she considers working abroad to support her family while also caring for her children. The play examines Joselle's dilemma through her interactions with her husband and teenage daughter, portraying the emotional toll of parenting decisions. Through its script, direction, music and performances, the play effectively conveys this message to both parents and children in a fun rather than preachy way. The cast delivers intensely genuine performances through their body language and emotions, helping the audience feel fully immersed in the story.

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    2. Critic the play using the different elements of theatrical arts as your guide.

    “Rated: PG” is a poignant play on positive discipline written by Liza Magtoto,


    directed by Mae Quesada-Medina and with music by award winning composer Vincent
    A. De Jesus. It was performed on the scene of the PETA Theater Center.
    The play revolved around the character of Joselle. Joselle is presented to the
    audience as a hardworking, multi-tasking mother of two: Tonton, age 6 and Rosalie, a
    teenager. However, her dilemma started when the opportunity to work abroad knocked
    in front of her but she is torn between the decision to make her provide more for her
    family and to be able to stay at home and make sure that her two kids grow up well.
    Her husband, Romy could have taken the sole responsibility of taking care of the
    children, but he is too focused on his job and leaves the children’s moral upbringing to
    her already burdened wife. She also has some discomfort on leaving her children in her
    own mother’s care since she herself was traumatized in her upbringing. She tries to
    delegate tasks, but Rosalie, her teenage daughter has her own concerns. Like most
    parents, Joselle and Romy find themselves at their wit’s end, and are tempted to resort
    to physical punishment as a form of discipline. Also, like many other parents, they don’t
    want to be like their own parents, so they try to find other ways of instilling discipline.
    This play about instilling positive discipline is not just for the parents, but also for
    the younger ones. As the parents would know and hear what is going on in the minds of
    their children, the younger ones would also understand what their parents are going
    through. The writer was able to capture this in the script, the director was able to stage it
    in a fun, but not a preachy kind of way and the music director was able to convey the
    message of the play through its music and lyrics.
    One aspect that the audience cannot fail to appreciate is the impeccable acting
    and singing skills of the cast. The actors are totally amazing and their acting is intensely
    genuine. One can easily figure out and flow with the story based on their movements
    and gestures. In fact, they acted in such a way that they could convey emotions to the
    extent that the audience tangibly felt their sentiments. The actors were appropriately
    groomed. Their costumes fitted the genre perfectly. They portrayed the poor life the
    actors lived. The lighting of the scenes has made a great impact together with the
    varying sound effects that describe the nature of the scenes.
    Overall, I loved their performance. This play shows and teaches through music
    and production numbers the what

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