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Comedia Slam
September 16, 2019 @ 5:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Diversifying the classics: Hispanic Classical Theater for Southern California and Beyond
A guest lecture by Barbara Fuchs (UCLA)
and Q&A with the Diversifying Classics team
Women and Servants
by Lope de Vega
Translated by Barbara Fuchs
A dramatic reading performed by students from the Department of Theater Arts (CSULB).
Recently discovered in Madrid’s National Library, this comedia emerges from its 400-year sleep with a remarkable freshness: it presents a world of suave dissimulation and accommodation, where creaky notions of honor and vengeance have virtually no place. Lope depicts a sophisticated urban culture of self-fashioning and social mobility, as the sisters outsmart fathers and masters to marry those they love. The sisters Luciana and Violante prefer their choices to men of higher standing, and are more than capable of getting their way.