The New York-based drama group, Ma-Yi Theater Ensemble, now in its 10th season, did the latest staging, following its 1996 off-Broadway triumph, Flipzoids, about the identity crisis of modern-day Filipino Americans ("Flips" in street slang).

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At a Ma-Yi performance, one gets the same drenched awakening to the Asian inside the American.

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These days Ma-Yi does mostly homegrown work - one big play per season, plus workshop skits and productions with other groups.

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The members of Ma-Yi, an old name for the Philippines, have trod a lot of boards since they started out a decade ago performing translations of Philippine plays.

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