Act one started with the obvious abhorrence expressed by the children by seeking an explanation from their mother why they were treated as if they were irresponsible adults devoid of judgment.
The children thought otherwise and demanded their mother to persuade their father to grant them more freedom and to live life without his lingering presence.
After witnessing all these painful episodes in the family, Clemencia finally retired and in a peculiar way somehow liberated herself from her father's tyranny.
Before all these events took place, Tio Carlos was constantly reminding Ramon that the children felt intense suffocation the way how things transpire in the house.
Ramon Sampang made peace with his sick son Gonzalo, the only child left after all the rest decided to abandon the house.
The play was first staged by the Filipino Players under the author's direction at the Manila Grand Opera House on February 27, 1940.
Dulaang Unibersidad ng Pilipinas (DUP), the official performing group of the University of the Philippines, in celebration of Wilfrido Ma.
Guerrero's centennial and to cap its 36th Season, staged The Forsaken House under the direction of theater icon Tony Mabesa.
The play starred theater luminaries Irma Adlawan, Tess Dumpit, Leo Rialp, Ces Quesada, Espie Tinio-Garcellano, Menggie Cobarrubias and Joel Lamangan, together with the Dulaang UP ensemble and Eric Dela Cruz, Karen Gaerlan, and Zafrullah Masahud.
The play's main casts were among Cagayan de Oro City's most talented theater actors namely Enrico Ramon Lluch, Tatit Fajardo, Eddie Villaranda, and Ametta Suarez Taguchi.