Proyecto Teatro's imaginative production telling of an environmentally "Chicken Little"-type story is a delight. It runs again this weekend at the Dougherty Arts Center.
The clever costumes alone are worth the modest price of admission to this all-Spanish-language frolic, where adults pay $8 and children only $2. Director Luis Ordaz and actor Guicha Gutiérrez have a wild sense of shape, color and transformation that the images here can suggest only approximately.
The company's physical language in creating these characters, mostly birds, is remarkable. Preening, puffing, quivering and sailing across the stage, they create a play that approaches the status of a talking ballet.
The glimmering, glistening, be-winged and emphatically well-spoken Hada (Fairy) played by Wendy Espinosa welcomes the audience, coaches the children and comments on the action throughout. As in the familiar fairy tale we meet a progressive accumulation of barnyard and woodland creatures with whimsically rhyming names, beginning with Pollito Fito (the chick, played by Jesús Garcia).
ProyectoTeatro, Austin's only all-Spanish theatre company, presents the children's fable
El Cielo Nuestro Que Se Va A Caer!
Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays August 28-September 6, 2009
Dougherty Arts Center 1110 Barton Springs Road Austin, TX 78704
ProyectoTeatro, the only all Spanish language theatre company in Austin, is proud to present “El Cielo Nuestro…Que Se Va a Caer!”, a modern version of the popular fable “The Sky is Falling” but with a twist; in this version, the sky just might actually come down!
It depicts how a charismatic young chicken by the name of Pollito Fito, (Jesus Garcia) is surprised one day when something falls from the sky and hits her on the head. With his innocence on hand, Pollito Fito realizes that a piece of the sky has fallen and runs to alert his fellow animals of his grave discovery. After various mishaps and a little detective work, our little animal friends assume that the sky is falling due to the foul, polluting factories of an evil turkey, Pavo Centavo (Jorge Gonzalez). Pollito Fito and his friends must race against the clock to save the sky but are faced with an obstacle; a traitor is in the midst.
Tickets: $2-8 dollars. Fridays-8:00 PM Saturdays and Sundays- 3:00 PM and 7:00 PM Info Phone: (512) 524-8555
