Daryo's All-American Diner by
Daryo’s All-American Diner is about resilience seen through the lens of a Filipino family who struggles to keep a family business open at the height of the pandemic. May, a daughter in her 40s of the late founder, Augusto Daryo, manages the diner and is torn between keeping the business afloat despite mounting expenses or selling the business altogether. As she tiptoes on navigating these choices, her mother...
Daryo’s All-American Diner is about resilience seen through the lens of a Filipino family who struggles to keep a family business open at the height of the pandemic. May, a daughter in her 40s of the late founder, Augusto Daryo, manages the diner and is torn between keeping the business afloat despite mounting expenses or selling the business altogether. As she tiptoes on navigating these choices, her mother April and her African American surrogate aunt Alberta suffer the brunt of racial hatred. May is forced to revisit her decision as family and friends redefine what binds them together as a community. The play sets the tone for how a traumatic act of violence can lead to an act of grace when the Daryo’s family and friends find new joy in honoring the legacy of the Diner's founder, the late father whose culinary prowess makes Daryo’s All-American Diner all American.
The play finds its strength through a multiracial assembly of characters creating a montage on which to view the ongoing anti-Asian hate from a perspective that engages cross-cultural healing and understanding.
The play finds its strength through a multiracial assembly of characters creating a montage on which to view the ongoing anti-Asian hate from a perspective that engages cross-cultural healing and understanding.