Peribañez

Peribañez unfolds the story of a newly married couple, Peribañez and Casilda – young farmers in a strongly connected rural community. The Commander’s obsessive love for Casilda pushes the young couple to make increasingly painful sacrifices as they strive to preserve their marriage on the brink of war. A cast of 10 performs in the urban oasis of the Jennie King Mellon Rose Garden in the heart of Mellon Park. This sublime summer offering features live folk music, and the spectacle of the Spanish Golden Age… where honor means more than life itself.

Interestingly, playwright Lope de Vega was writing in Spain at the same time Shakespeare was writing in London. He wrote hundreds of plays and invented an entire genre of playwriting, the comedia, which mixes comic and heroic elements. In this play, Lope de Vega argues passionately for the inalienable rights of the individual, exploring class and gender roles – a strikingly modern position for a writer to take in 1613.

SHOWTIMES

August 5 – 28, 2016
Rose Garden in the heart of Mellon Park

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