ON HER SHOULDERS: "Count Partinuplés" by Ana Caro

New Perspectives Theatre Company

Written around 1640, COUNT PARTINUPLÉS  is a “play of appearances”, a genre calling for magical happenings and special effects.

New Perspectives Theatre Company presents the next reading in our ON HER SHOULDERS program, introducing women playwrights from the past to contemporary audiences. Your donation is very much appreciated and helps keep this valuable program going!<h3>COUNT PARTINUPLÉS by Ana Caro, translated by Harley Erdman</h3> directed by Lynn Marie Macy, dramaturgy by Melody Brooks Saturday, November 6, 2:00pm EST (U.S.) through Wednesday, November 10, 2021with: Sheila Joon Azim*, Cynthia Bastidas*, DeAnna Gonzales*, Tatiana Grey*, Jordan Laroya*, Jomack Miranda, Arisael Rivera*, Mario Sotero*, and Federico Trigo*<h3>ADMISSION IS BY DONATION ($10 suggested)</h3>SPECIAL BONUS FOR DONORS: you will receive the Play In Context essay, which situates the script in it's original time and place.Ana Caro de Mallén (c. 1590 -1646) was a poet and playwright of the Spanish Golden Age. She is considered to be one of the first professional female playwrights as records exist of payments for her work. She was born c. 1590 and 1600 and was a morisco slave (child of parents who had been forcibly converted to Christianity from Islam) but was adopted by Gabriel Caro de Mallén and his wife Ana María de Torres. Her adoptive family was a prominent one; they were hereditary Councilors to the Court and thus were able to give Caro a first class education and an elite lifestyle, regardless of her beginnings.With few exceptions, Caro published only under the name Ana Caro; her first book of poetry was published from Seville in 1628. Many of her male counterparts, including Juan de Matos Fragoso and Luis Vélez de Guevara, praised her works. Caro was also a close friend of novelist Maria de Zaya. El conde partinuplés (Count Partinuplés) and Valor, agravio y mujer (The Courage to Right a Woman's Wrongs) are the only two full-length plays by Caro that are still known today. She died of the plague in November1646 and was buried in Seville.COUNT PARTINUPLÉS was written sometime around 1640; it was first printed in 1653 after Caro's death. The script uses an "invisible-mistress" plot as a parody (and subversion) of certain elements of the typical "wife-murder" drama popular at the time. The script is part of the Spanish comedia tradition - one of the defining features of Spain's legendary Golden Age of literature. These plays grew out of the more improvisational Commedia dell'Arte but were more artistically rigorous works. The play is further classified as a comedia de apariencias or a “play of appearances”, a genre calling for magical happenings and special effects.HARLEY ERDMAN (Translator) is a dramaturg, playwright, and scholar whose work focuses on adaptation and translation. He is the author of five books and translations, including Women Playwrights of Early Modern Spain (ITER, 2016) which won the Josephine Roberts Award for best scholarly edition in the field of early modern women and gender. He is a winner of the Association for Hispanic Classic Theater's Translation Prize, and has also been a Fulbright Fellow. He is the author of three opera librettos and numerous plays, including "The Scarlet Professor", which won the 2017 American Prize in opera for composer Eric Sawyer. Erdman is chair of the Department of Theater at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. More info at http://www.harleyerdman.com. LYNN MARIE MACY (Director) is a playwright and actor in addition to her work as a director. Her most recent directing projects are a staged reading of her new script "Doubt &amp; Deliberation" at Theatre For The New City and Zoom readings of Shaw’s "Overruled" for Theater 2020; "Gabriel" by George Sand (also script translation and adaptation) and "The Necessity of Divorce" by Olympe de Gouges for NPTC's On Her Shoulders program; and "Uncle John and The Men's Room" by Maxine Kern for Cosmic Orchid. She also directed her own script: "Northanger Abbey, A Romantic Gothic Comedy" for Theater 2020. Ms. Macy previously directed staged readings of "Sappho" by Estelle Anna Lewis, "Dulcitus" by Hrosvita and "Ordo Virtutum" by Hildegard von Bingen for On Her Shoulders. Other directing credits include Shakespeare’s "All’s Well That Ends All" for Theater Ten Ten, "As You Like It" for Minnesota Shakespeare Company, and her own scripts "The Thrice Three Muses and Innocent Diversions, A Christmas Entertainment with Jane Austen &amp; Friends" for Distilled Spirits Theatre and Theater Ten Ten.ON HER SHOULDERS was founded in May 2013 to present rehearsed, staged readings of plays by women from across the spectrum of time, with contemporary dramaturgs contextualizing them for modern audiences. To date, the program has presented 60 plays by 47 writers, from the years ca. 955 to 1970.

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ON HER SHOULDERS: "Count Partinuplés" by Ana Caro

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