Gitanos/Gypsies

Posted by Ken McCoy (Orlando-Daytona Beach, FL, United States) on 30 March 2007 in Lifestyle & Culture and Portfolio.

October 2006. A scene from an "entremes" (a short play) by Miguel de Cervantes called "El retablo de las maravillas" (the tableau of marvels), again from the Festival Cervantino in Guanajuato, Mexico last fall. The basic plot is similar to the "Emperor's New Clothes": only people without sin can see the "invisible" marvels, and so everyone hypocritically praises something that's not really there. Mucha comedy from the Spanish Golden Age of drama!

(By the way, getting a valid white balance was murder because of a strangely yellow gel over the outdoor stage lighting floods.)

A fine point for the actors out there: I'm sure you can see by the actor's expression that he is not so much focusing on the character as on the presention of it. That's OK, though, I feel the same about Dustin Hoffman and Sean Penn: you can always see the actor at work.

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