Tic-tac-toe is a comedy by multi-awarded Filipino poet and playwright Peter Solis Nery, who won first prize at the 2016 Palanca Awards for this one-act play.[1] It is the most frequently produced - and touted as the funniest - English-language play in Iloilo City in the new millennium.[2]
Plot summary
Tic-tac-toe is about a forward-thinking Ilonggo playwright who produces a "sexually-charged play" for a local theater. As the play goes to rehearsals, it is met with criticism and demands for rewrites: first, from the director; then, from the producer; and finally, from the very conservative consultant and test audience. Albeit unhappy about changing a word in his play, the playwright goes through the motion of revising the play to "satisfy" the demands of the "theatre gods" — with hilarious and hysterical results. Although the playwright passionately argues for modernism in the theater in the course of the play, this play within a play ends with a literal "tic-tac-toe."
