Theatre
Los diezmos de Olancho
Not translated into English
Medardo Mejía · 1976
Synopsis
Three dramas about the social wars provoked in Olancho by the tithes levied in the nineteenth century, under the government of José María Medina, nicknamed Medinón. Cinchonero, Serapio Romero, a man from Guarizama, rises up against the repression; La Ahorcancina deals with the mass hanging of 1865, which struck Manto and the neighbouring valleys; around them pass the mayor Rosales, Father Ortega, peasants and the people of Olancho.
Context
The trilogy appears in Tegucigalpa in 1976, in a volume of more than five hundred pages; a recent article dates it to 1959. Its plays had first been published separately: Cinchonero in 1965, as a drama in three acts and six scenes, then La Ahorcancina in the journal Ariel, for the centenary of the hanging. In an essay of 1964, the author distinguished these social wars from mere quarrels between caudillos.
Who it is for
Three plays in Spanish, untranslated; they assume some knowledge of Olancho's past and of the figure of President Medina.
Prizes and reception
Cinchonero, the first play of the trilogy, was favourably received in the country's press and on its radio.
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