The Wide Ionian Sea is a play in English by Filipino playwright Peter Solis Nery.
[1] Set in a town called Ithaca on Panay Island, Mentor, an older man of 35, meets the 19-year-old Telemachus at an internet cafe.
They have an affair and lived together as Mentor finds inspiration in Telemachus to write a book of 100 erotic sonnets which he hopes will establish his place in Philippine literature.
Telemachus, who has become an insomniac after leaving Mentor, returns to congratulate the poet and to explain why he left.
The Wide Ionian Sea was published in Funny, Sad, and Dangerous: Three Award-winning Short Plays (KDP: 2019)[2] alongside other award-winning Nery plays, namely: the tragicomic Gladiolas [sic], and the comedy Tic-tac-toe.