Layeta Bucoy

“Double, double, toil and trouble,” indeed! Shakespeare’s punchiest tragedy gets a makeover in a way that only the prodigious Filipino multi-hyphenate Khavn De La Cruz could deliver. Unfolding in the Municipality of Marcos, Ilocos Norte and Khavn’s own Burroughsian Interzone of Mondomanila – also the title of the director’s crazed horror-comedy-crime drama, which premiered at IFFR 2012 – this mash-up of styles, genres, moods and atmospheres features a cast of over 100 performers and defies any easy description, even with so familiar a text. But as Khavn says of his source material, "Usually, word is king. Here, text is just one of the many cogs. It’s a column, a roof shingle, an ornament."

Dr. Jess Resureccion is running for mayor in his poor fishing village, determined to bring real change to the place he grew up in. However, Dr. Jess’ cousin, Boy Pogi Resureccion, has been paid by the incumbent mayor to run as a nuisance candidate and to rival Dr. Jess.