El Tigre / Juan Darien

El Tigre / Juan Darien

ISBN: 9780573702655

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El Tigre / Juan Darien

El Tigre / Juan Darien

ISBN: 9780573702655

In Stock

Overview

This play is based on the folk story "Juan Darien" told by Horacio Quiroja, relating the moralistic value of "a life for a life" and the transformation it creates in the life of the avenger. An animal becomes a human and then reverts back to an animal by an act of revenge. The play can best be told in dramatically en masque with some choreography. It lends itself to musical enhancement of a Latin, jazz/blues, or ethereal Andean flute music.

The text for this work is but the skeleton upon which the work is co-constructed by the performers in a manner more than is true of most plays. Building it out requires music, choreography, magic and masque. It is also an ensemble piece. The story told in the verse should be enacted in dance, e.g.,  in the sequence of death taking off souls of the village, in the jaguar courting scene, in the school scene, in death taking of the Mother etc.  

Cautions

  • Artboard 3 Gun Shots

Details

  • Genre: Fantasy, Adaptation (Literature), Theatre for Young Audiences, Fable/Folktale, Experimental
  • Time Period: 19th Century
  • Cast Attributes: Ensemble Cast
  • Target Audience: Appropriate for All Audiences

Authors

E. Thomalen

E. Thomalen

Stage Productions: Clara’s Christmas Dreams (2004 St. Clements Th., NY Times: “the show mesmerizes even the boys” also 2008 Calhoun, GA; 2008 Wyndham, NY; 2015 South Brandon, FL); The Metamorphosis, A Play (2003 Jose Quintero Th., OOBR: “highly recommended”; also 2015 Tokyo, ...
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