{"id":221,"date":"2014-11-10T01:31:23","date_gmt":"2014-11-10T01:31:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mhcprojecttheatre.org\/?page_id=221"},"modified":"2014-11-10T01:31:23","modified_gmt":"2014-11-10T01:31:23","slug":"erasmo","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/projecttheatre\/past-shows\/spring-2012\/erasmo\/","title":{"rendered":"Erasmo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">Erasmo is a tragic romance written in verse that follows the life of a young girl named Hortensia, daughter of the wealthiest man in town, who is considered cursed by the people in her town due to her lopsided mouth.\u00a0 Individuals with this \u201cdisfigurement\u201d are considered to be slanderers who cannot keep secrets and, instead, repeat everything they hear.\u00a0 Though Hortensia longs to be accepted by her fellow townspeople and to possibly find love, she is shunned.\u00a0 Hortensia finally finds love in a field hand, Erasmo, who works on her father\u2019s land.\u00a0 Her parents and her only friend, Agalia, warn her that love could never work between a poor man and a rich woman, like herself, and that he is probably unfaithful.\u00a0 While Hortensia starts suspecting Erasmo, murders start occurring daily in the town.\u00a0 Characters then set on an emotional journey to uncover the truth and are very surprised at what they find.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">Erasmo will be held on March 29th at 7:30pm, March 30th at 6:30pm, and April 1st at 2pm in The New York Room in Chapin.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>*Please note that the Friday, March 30th performance has been changed from 7:30pm to<\/strong> <strong>6:30pm.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">Cast List:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">Rani Mehta \u2013 Candelaria\u2019s Father\/Assorted Townspeople and Voices<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000\">Izzy Bisese \u2013 Agalia\/Young Candelaria\/Assorted Voices<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000\">Shristi Ghimire \u2013 Hortensia<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000\">Brittany Sims \u2013 Candelaria<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000\">Caroline Mabee \u2013 Erasmo<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000\">Kelsey Brown \u2013 Dead girl\/Candelaria\u2019s mother\/Assorted Voices<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000\">Sarah Wheatley \u2013 Nemesio<\/span><\/p>\n<p>See photographs of the production here:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/128499179@N05\/sets\/72157646885418084\/\">https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/128499179@N05\/sets\/72157646885418084\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Erasmo is a tragic romance written in verse that follows the life of a young girl named Hortensia, daughter of the wealthiest man in town, who is considered cursed by the people in her town due to her lopsided mouth.\u00a0 Individuals with this \u201cdisfigurement\u201d are considered to be slanderers who cannot keep secrets and, instead, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/projecttheatre\/past-shows\/spring-2012\/erasmo\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Erasmo&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":186,"featured_media":0,"parent":131,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-221","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/projecttheatre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/projecttheatre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/projecttheatre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/projecttheatre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/186"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/projecttheatre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/projecttheatre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/221\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/projecttheatre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/projecttheatre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}