L'ogre espantatotsitotes - Empar de Lanuza
Front page representing an emotionless face and a smiling mask.

Printed

10 pages

Author(s)

L'ogre espantatotsitotes

Empar de Lanuza | 1984 | Valencia, Spain
Characters
Ogre, Vaca, Pere, Carme, Miquel
Number of acts
1
Note

This pedagogical work was written by Valencian publisher Eliseu Climent. The play aims at encouraging children to stage puppet plays in their schools. Along with five other plays, it was published just as Catalan was starting to become part of the curriculum in the Valencian Community, after several decades of Francoist dictature.

Plot summary

A village gets rid of an enemy by deceiving him

A very big and very strong ogre terrifies an entire village. As the ogre sleeps, digesting a cow he has eaten, the inhabitants leap at the chance to tie him down. When he wakes up, they tell him they will not free him unless he does something useful, such as cleaning all the houses’ chimneys and blowing on some clouds so that it rains. Once the ogre has accomplished these tasks, the villagers have him believe that another ogre claims to be stronger than he is. The ogre goes into the mountains to challenge his rival. Because of the echo of his screams, he keeps thinking that his rival always is further and further away, so much so that he never comes back to the village.

Composition date
1984

First performance

Valencia, Spain,

This play was performed in several schools of the Valencian Community

Publications and translations

Publication

Empar de Lanuza. Mitja dotzena. Valence: Eliseu Climent, 1984.

Language
Catalan
Literary tones
Didactic, Fantasy
Animations techniques
Shadow theatre
Audience
Young audiences

Key-words

Theatrical techniques

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Written by

Jaume Lloret