The Grave Diggers

How low, how very low can a man go down?

When I first entered the mini theatre, I don’t know what to expect about the play. The setting had somewhat surprised me. The play was already started when I entered the theatre, that’s why I was not able to understand why the characters are digging and what event really initiated their actions. I asked some of my classmates what really happened to the characters before they started digging and was disappointed to know that they themselves do not know and that, they said, they do not understand anything either. I can just agree with them in that department.

The dialogues by the actors are incomprehensible to the extent that instead of catching up to the plot, my confusion just only escalated. I do not criticize the actors for their acting skills, just that an audience’s lack of understanding to their conversations ruined the effects of the setting, not to mention, the lessons that was supposedly conveyed in the play was lost. Thankfully, one of my friends sitting beside me had enlightened me about the predicament of one of the characters and that there is a reason why they are digging.

As what my friend told me, one of the main characters had a wife who was ill and needed medical attention. To meet the medical demands, he and his brother-in-law were digging in a grave in order to obtain some treasures. It seems that as the play went on, an argument broke between the main character and his brother-in-law that made the former abandon the job. The play ended just like that.

I may not be able to understand the play, at least for most parts, but I did get some bits about the lesson. As my classmate Ma. Faith Wasquin said in her blog “The play reminds us the value of respect,” it did show that it was so low of the characters to disturb those who already passed away. But it also shows that man can go to great lengths in order to save the people they care about the most even if they would sink as low as digging graves.