Dress rehearsal, farewell show
Yesterday afternoon we held a full dress rehearsal for the farewell show we'll do for our host families on Monday. Here is a brief synopsis of the play we wrote - there are some additional details, but here are the highlights.
The whole play is in the context of two grandparents telling their grandchildren a story of some Asturian mythology, and so it constantly goes back and forth between the kids with their grandparents and the following story. The students who are not acting come in at different moments to sing or dance.
Act 1: In a small Asturian town, Adelín, a young trasgo, gets bored and decides to enter a quiet house just to cause some trouble. In this house lives Arabela, the most beautiful xana of Asturias and Adelín falls in love at first sight. She rejects him (because he is a trasgo) and sends him off with an impossible task just to get rid of him. Adelín goes searching for some witches to help him because tall, good-looking, and strong so Arabela will fall for him.
Act 2: Adelín finds two witches who cast a spell on him so he will be tall, good-looking, and strong...but one of the witches messes up the spell and accidentally turns him into a tree. Another xana, Nela, passes by the tree and pauses to rest under its branches. Adelín, as a tree, remarks that she is more beautiful than the other xana he had fallen in love with, and Nela realizes she can hear the tree talking. Nela decides to help Adelín turn back into a trasgo.
Act 3: Adelín, with the help of two lost pilgrims, turns back into a trasgo and he and Nela decide to get married. At the wedding ceremony, Arabela bursts in to oppose the marriage since she is now in love with Adelín. The witches turn her into a statue as punishment for ruining the wedding, and everyone lives happily ever after.
Here are some pictures from dress rehearsal!
The whole play is in the context of two grandparents telling their grandchildren a story of some Asturian mythology, and so it constantly goes back and forth between the kids with their grandparents and the following story. The students who are not acting come in at different moments to sing or dance.
Act 1: In a small Asturian town, Adelín, a young trasgo, gets bored and decides to enter a quiet house just to cause some trouble. In this house lives Arabela, the most beautiful xana of Asturias and Adelín falls in love at first sight. She rejects him (because he is a trasgo) and sends him off with an impossible task just to get rid of him. Adelín goes searching for some witches to help him because tall, good-looking, and strong so Arabela will fall for him.
Act 2: Adelín finds two witches who cast a spell on him so he will be tall, good-looking, and strong...but one of the witches messes up the spell and accidentally turns him into a tree. Another xana, Nela, passes by the tree and pauses to rest under its branches. Adelín, as a tree, remarks that she is more beautiful than the other xana he had fallen in love with, and Nela realizes she can hear the tree talking. Nela decides to help Adelín turn back into a trasgo.
Act 3: Adelín, with the help of two lost pilgrims, turns back into a trasgo and he and Nela decide to get married. At the wedding ceremony, Arabela bursts in to oppose the marriage since she is now in love with Adelín. The witches turn her into a statue as punishment for ruining the wedding, and everyone lives happily ever after.
Here are some pictures from dress rehearsal!
una xana
Lost pilgrims
Grandparents and grandchildren
el trasgo
priest
una xana
the witches
a dance to 'explota mi corazón'
Getting ready to dance to 'malamente'
¡BRU-JAS!
sad song for the trasgo-turned-tree
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