FLS 4650 Presenta …

“El Burrito Anacleto”

by Ramón Méndez

(Venezuela)

Work in progress 2008

Las Estrellas y Sus Papeles

Diana Iocco………..  La Bruja
Erica Sotelo...   Burrito y Capita Roja
Erica Sotelo …….. Rufino

Heather Carnahan … … ….  El Rey

Jessica Hagen ……  Rito

Jessica Hagen … … Botón de azucena

Heather Carnahan……… Soldado
Diana Iocco …... ...  Anuncios

“El burrito Anacleto” is a children’s play by the Venezuelan writer Ramón Méndez.  La bruja Catrina has enchanted the prince Capita Roja because he didn’t want to marry her.  The only way Capita Roja can become a prince again is if the princess Botón de Azucena, who is in love with Capita Roja, kisses the donkey’s right ear three times.  That secret is only known to the witch and the children in the audience.  At the end of the play, when the King asks the audience what the secret to disenchant the donkey might be, the children shout “Al  burrito hay que besarlo tres veces en la oreja derecha.”  The princess does just that and Capita Roja becomes a prince again and promises to take Rufino, his owner, to the palace of happiness, where he and Botón de Azucena will live for ever after

Sponsored by the Foreign Languages Department and the Sigma Delta Pi, Honor Society

LAS ESTRELLAS Y SUS PAPELES

Heather Carnahan ……Actor 2, Hombre, y Vendedor
Jessica Hagen…………….Actor 1, Dentista, Colegial 3
Diana Iocco…………...Actriz, Mujer, Esposa, Colegial 2
Erica Sotelo………………..Actor 3, Colegial 1, Actor

 Historia de un flemón is part of a collection of short plays by the Argentinean writer Osvaldo Dragún called Historias para ser contadas. La Historia de un flemón is a drama that highly criticize the mechanization and dehumanization of modern society.  In this play Dragún expresses his conviction that marginal members of society are wrongly excluded from its benefits. His characters come from the working class or they are marginal types that have to suffer in their everyday struggle to survive.  The drama follows the tradition of Bertold Brecht’s epic theatre, very popular during the 50s and 60s in Latin America. The drama begins with an actor’s prologue, a practice originally used in medieval traveling popular theatre, and moves directly into the action of the play, with its minimal scenery and shifting of roles.  El vendedor has to sell lottery tickets on the streets of Buenos Aires, in order to make a living. But to sell tickets he has to shout “a la pelotita”  to advertise his product. At the same time he can’t shout because he has contracted an abscess in his tooth that prevents him from being able to speak. At the end of the play he dies on the street from the tremendous pain he feels. He tries to conquer the suffering by selling his lottery tickets, but at the end he succumbs to the pain.

FLS 4650/Theater Practicum in Spanish/March 3, 2008/ Carlos C. Amaya