Relatively unknown in cultural circles and the literati, a few of these, among the large mass of plays written over the years, are noteworthy for their ingenious rendering into dramatic composition the people’s thoughts and insights into human nature and life. Here are visibly mirrored the Bikol way of life, the Bikol mind and temperament. Serving as outlets for nationalistic sentiments, these dramas confined radical ideas in configurations of action, role, and symbol and skillfully ensconced them in romantic episodes and comic situations. Given encouragement and a requisite environment, Bikol drama could have grown and developed into a high dramatic art, representative of the Bikols. But the Bikol area has been most underdeveloped of the eight major regions in the country, and so its drama, the art of the people, is equally low in development. Worse, Bikol literary endeavors receive no boost or become relegated to substandard by a people unaware of their use and value.