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Fuente Ovejuna. A 1600's Spanish drama by Lope de Vega and translated and adapted by Adrian Mitchell. The true story of a small town in fifteenth-century Spain whose peasant citizens, in order to defend their honor and rights as citizens, are led by a townswoman to rise up against their tyrannous commander. Loeb Drama Center, 8 p.m. $5 for students...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: At Harvard Daily Entertainment & Events | 10/28/1993 | See Source »

Fuente Ovejuna. A 1600's Spanish drama by Lope de Vega and translated and adapted by Adrian Mitchell. The true story of a small town in fifteenth-century Spain whose peasant citizens, in order to defend their honor and rights as citizens, are led by a townswoman to rise up against their tyrannical commander. Loeb Drama Center, 8 p.m. $5 for students...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: At Harvard Daily Entertainment & Events | 10/28/1993 | See Source »

Fuente Ovejuna. A 1600's Spanish dramaby Lope de Vega and translated and adapted byAdrian Mitchell. The true story of a small town infifteenth-century Spain whose peasant citizens, inorder to defend their honor and rights ascitizens, are led by a townswoman to rise upagainst their tyrannous commander. Loeb DramaCenter, 8 p.m. $5 for students...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: At Harvard Daily Entertainment & Events | 10/28/1993 | See Source »

...cliche contends that the Spanish are a proud and passionate people; Lope de Vega's Fuente Ovejuna hardly strives to dispel the stereotype. After a spot of flogging and rape foreplay, loopy Lope really gets the juices flowing with graphic onstage torture and decapitation. Gorier than "Commando," racier than "Emmanuelle on Taboo Island," Fuente Ovejuna makes for old-fashioned family fun. Yet for all its mainstage status, its interesting script and its many strengths, the Loeb production retains on overwhelming air of student drama of the cardboard shield and plastic sword school...

Author: By Edward P. Mcbride, | Title: The Speedy Rise and Fall of Fuente Ovejuna | 10/28/1993 | See Source »

Written in the first years of the 17th century, Fuente Ovejuna stuns the audience with its precocity. Lope de Vega pokes fun at P.C. euphemisms, impractical intellectuals, outmoded patriarchal feudalism and classist snobbery. He addresses what we though were 19th and 20th century causes celebres: social revisionism, empowerment of the masses, demogoguery, mob violence and group identity. Furthermore, his plot simultaneously explores the development of the nation-state in Spain, and its effects at an individual level. Lope de Vega's mature, witty, gutsy script presents these topics engagingly...

Author: By Edward P. Mcbride, | Title: The Speedy Rise and Fall of Fuente Ovejuna | 10/28/1993 | See Source »

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