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Bob
Brown has devised an attractive show. Trujaman, the storyteller
who narrates the action, is an adorable life-sized puppet
impossible to treat as other than flesh and blood. Looking
like a dwarf from Walt Disney's "Snow White", this
Trujaman could also pass for one of the "cabezudos" that
populate Spanish religious festivals and parades. His movements
are as real as those of Master Peter, played by a tall young
man topped by a true cabezudo head-gear.
The staging is clear and
thrilling. "The Moor's Punishment" may be a bit timid
by Punch-and-Judy standards, but everywhere else these puppets
communicate real adventure. The scene in the Pyrenees, with Don
Gayferos riding his horse through the faraway mountains, was breathtaking."
Octavio Roca
The Washington Times |
