Paul Fleischman’s “Mind’s Eye” was one of the critically acclaimed plays presented during last December’s International Theater Festival at the Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP). Even the normally acerbic F. Sionil José, National Artist for Literature, hailed it as “the triumph of the creative imagination over a grim reality.”
Joy Virata looks cool, calm and collected as she arrives in her condo unit. She doesn’t look her age, 77; it’s something she attributes to daily, one-hour exercise, and to doing what she loves most, working in the theater.