The Love of Perlimplín and Belisa in the Garden / Amor de Don Perlimplín con Belisa en su Jardín
Author(s):
Federico García Lorca, translation by Caridad Svich
In English and in Spanish on the same performance, with two casts and two different stagings. First half in Spanish with English surtitles.Second half in English.
Don Perlimplín is an elderly man who, proud of having remained a bachelor all his life, is convinced by his servant Marcolfa to marry his neighbour, Belisa, a tender teenager offered unashamedly and almost by force by her mother.
But tragedy explodes on the wedding night when, despite Perliplín’s confession of his love for Belisa, she falls for another man with whom she is having a passionate romance. Aware of the deception, Perlimplín will have to decide how to respond to this treachery.
