For the 14th year, Teatro de la Luna has started its annual International Festival of Hisanic Theatre. This year, the festival includes performances from Argentina, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Puerto Rico and Venezuela and includes zarzuela and children’s performances from the United States. The first offering is a stunning one-man show from Argentina’s Compania Los del Verso: “Quien Lo Probo Lo Sabe” (“Those Who Taste It Know It”) written and directed by Mariano Moro. A tribute to the man who was the world’s most prolific playwright, Lope de Vega, Moro’s script pictures Lope waking from death in a chapel in Madrid in 1635, where his devoted followers have left to mourn his passing.
Moro’s Lope begins to recount the events of his extraordinary life, telling of his poetry, his drama, his loves, his wives, his children, his time spent with the “Invincible Armada,” and his acquaintances with other writers of the time, notably Cervantes. It’s a long and rich story that sounds like the invention of a man determined to set the record straight.
