{"id":7878,"date":"2021-08-10T08:01:33","date_gmt":"2021-08-10T08:01:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.universolorca.com\/obra-literaria\/the-blackjacks-puppets\/"},"modified":"2021-10-19T11:56:40","modified_gmt":"2021-10-19T11:56:40","slug":"the-blackjacks-puppets","status":"publish","type":"obra_literaria","link":"https:\/\/www.universolorca.com\/en\/obra-literaria\/the-blackjacks-puppets\/","title":{"rendered":"The Billy-Club Puppets"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Billy-Club Puppets (T\u00edteres de cachiporra). Tragicomedy of Don Crist\u00f3bal and Do\u00f1a Rosita. Puppet farce in six scenes and a warning <\/em>was written in 1922, later revised, but never premiered during Federico Garc\u00eda Lorca’s lifetime. As its title indicates, it consists of six scenes and a warning. It begins with the warning put in Mosquito’s mouth and addressed to the audience.<\/p>\n

In the first scene<\/strong> Rosita appears embroidering and her father complaining about his financial situation. He proposes to marry her to solve the problem and Rosita is happy believing that the lucky one is going to be her boyfriend Cocoliche. But the father had arranged the marriage with Cristobita, an old brute and despot, with his traditional characteristic cudgel, who buys the girl in exchange for paying off the father’s debt. When Rosita finds out, she is indignant, but ends up accepting the situation.<\/p>\n

In the second scene,<\/strong> Cocoliche finds out and is taken to the tavern by some waiters. Meanwhile, Cristobita and the father close the deal. The father feels remorse and doubts to whom he should give his daughter.<\/p>\n

In the third scene,<\/strong> they meet a young man in the tavern who had been a former boyfriend of Rosita’s and who left her to go see the world.<\/p>\n

\"Lorca<\/a>
Lorca with Don Crist\u00f3bal, at the performance of the Puppet Play, Argentina 1934 \/ Photo: FGL Foundation.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In the fourth,<\/strong> Mosquito appears describing how Rosita feels. The young man, Currito, plans to see her taking the place of the shoemaker who is going to try on her wedding shoes.<\/p>\n

In the fifth,<\/strong> Cristobita prepares for the wedding and in the sixth scene<\/strong> Rosita complains when Currito, her old boyfriend whom she no longer loves, appears, pretending to be the shoemaker. In Cristobita’s presence, she locks Currito in a closet. Cocoliche also appears through a window and ends up locked in the closet with the other young man. In the end, the existence of the two hidden young men is revealed, Currito ends up with Cristobita and Rosita and Cocoliche are free again to live their love.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":7881,"template":"","genero_obra_literaria":[102],"class_list":["post-7878","obra_literaria","type-obra_literaria","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","genero_obra_literaria-theater"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.universolorca.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/obra_literaria\/7878"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.universolorca.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/obra_literaria"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.universolorca.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/obra_literaria"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.universolorca.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.universolorca.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"genero_obra_literaria","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.universolorca.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/genero_obra_literaria?post=7878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}