Fuente Ovejuna
Sunday 3 December 2006 19:30-21:30 (Radio 3)
Fuente Ovejuna.
Lope de Vega's play is based on real events in 15th-century Spain, in which the people of a small village rose up against a tyrannical overlord and exacted a savage and brutal revenge for years of repression. When called to account by the reigning monarchs Isabella and Ferdinand, the village stood together.
Playlist:
Commander ...... Brian Cox
Laurencia ...... Maxine Peake
Esteban ...... Clive Swift
Captain Flores ...... Jonathan Keeble
Sergeant Ortuno ...... Martin George
Grand Master Rodrigo ...... Oliver Le Sueur
Pascuala ...... Alison Pettit
Frondoso ...... Carl Prekopp
Mengo ...... Stephen Critchlow
Adapted for radio and directed by David Timson
