Bruce Dean Willis

is Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature at The University of Tulsa. His research and publications focus on diverse aspects of poetry and performance, and expressions of Indigenous and African cultures, in Latin American literature, particularly Brazil, Chile, and Mexico.

TIME FOR CHOCOLATE is available for purchase through One Act Play Depot! A brief description:

An intoxicating evening of music, poetry, and chocolate... in pre-conquest Mexico!
Based on a fifteenth-century dialogue among nobles schooled in rhetoric and philosophy, the play pits father against son in a war of words over the power and beauty of artistic expression.

Monday, December 14, 2009

Minipastorela

Traditional in the Spanish-speaking world, especially Mexico, a pastorela is a Christmas pageant that focuses on the obstacles the shepherds must overcome on their journey to Bethlehem. Mexico City hosts an annual festival of pastorelas, the FESTHIP. This miniature (twitter?) script is inspired by the current craze for six-word summaries. 

Pastor 1 (Bartolo): Resisto reconocer la festejada inevitabilidad religiosa.
Pastora 1 (Gila): ¿Quién te crees? Todos somos relativistas.
Angel 1 (Gabriel) (cantando): Adeste, fideles. ¡Gloria in excelsis deo!
Angel 2 (Miguel): ¡Acudid a Belén! Veréis a Dios.
Demonio 1 (Lúcifer): ¡No acudan! La distancia da hueva.
Demonio 2 (Asmodeo) (bailando lascivamente): ¡Gula! ¡Lujuria! ¡Envidia! ¡Soberbia! ¡Ira! ¡Avaricia!
Ermitaño: ¡Rechacemos Satanás! Sigamos el sagrado camino. 
Pastora 2 (Gilberta): ¡Andando! Hoy no circula mi bocho.
José: Bienvenidos. ¿No traen tacos al pastor?
Pastor 2 (Bato): Cómo, si ¡somos los meros romeritos!
María (cantando): ¡Reciban la gracia del divino verbo!

Telón. 
Digo: Telita


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