El Tigre/Juan Darien - Paperback

by E. Thomalen (Author)

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