God Will Do The Rest

After her divorce, a forty-something former teen mom returns to her childhood home after being estranged from her family for almost two decades. But with the collision of her return and her glamorously overbearing mother's 70th birthday, their family homestead soon explodes in an uproar of hidden truths and harbored secrets. With Santo Niño prayers, karaoke and chicken adobo, "God Will Do The Rest...
After her divorce, a forty-something former teen mom returns to her childhood home after being estranged from her family for almost two decades. But with the collision of her return and her glamorously overbearing mother's 70th birthday, their family homestead soon explodes in an uproar of hidden truths and harbored secrets. With Santo Niño prayers, karaoke and chicken adobo, "God Will Do The Rest" exposes the complicated ways Filipino Americans grapple with their love and duty to family.
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God Will Do The Rest

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  • Shaun Leisher:
    16 Apr. 2023
    Such a great play!! Loved getting to spend time with this family.
  • Nick Malakhow:
    29 Mar. 2023
    A beautiful family dramedy whose scope is as expansive as it is intimate. Pilapil explores the complexities and sacrifices and risks of emigrating from another country for a better life for you and your descendants, inherited trauma, assimilation, pride and shame, and so much more. Each character is so specifically and delicately drawn, and their wants, needs, and fears are clear and so clearly come into conflict with everyone else's in ways that are truthful and engaging to watch. Throughout, the love of this family beneath these struggles is palpable. The humor inherent in being human is poignantly executed.
  • Brian James Polak:
    5 Mar. 2023
    This is an excellent multi-generational play about family and all it's wonderful complications and contradictions. I loved every single page of it.

Character Information

  • Maggie
    70,
    Filipino
    ,
    Female
    Family matriarch, strong willed and feisty, rocks a fake Louis Vuitton.
  • Ferdie
    70,
    Filipino
    ,
    Male
    Family Patriarch, Maggie's husband, his wife wears the pants.
  • Connie
    40s,
    Filipino American
    ,
    Female
    Their oldest daughter, the black sheep, nicknamed Ipyon.
  • Fritzie
    late-30s,
    Filipino American
    ,
    Female
    Their youngest daughter, bougie, nicknamed Baby.
  • Alex
    20s,
    Filipino American
    ,
    Male
    Connie's son, a bit lost, nicknamed Totoy.
  • Babette
    60s,
    Filipino
    ,
    Female
    Maggie's sister, a widow, loves white wine on ice.
  • Nate
    40s,
    White, Jewish
    ,
    Male
    Fritzie's fiancee, a doctor.

Development History

  • Workshop
    ,
    Geffen Playhouse
    ,
    2023
  • Residency
    ,
    Geffen Playhouse
    ,
    2022

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