Word: ovejuna
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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 tyrannical commander. Loeb Drama Center, 8 p.m. $5 for students...
...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...
...Fuente Ovejuna...
...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...
...play recounts two parallel plots which merge in the conclusion. While the peasants of the wee Spanish hamlet of Fuente Ovejuna groan under the rapine yoke of their wicked overlord, Fernando Gomez de Guzman, that same overlord joins in a rebellion against their Catholic Majesties, Ferdinand and Isabella, of fifth-grade history fame. But in the spheres of both high politics and human resources, Fernando "Hubris" Gomez oversteps the limit, with positively diabolic consequences...