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SYNOPSIS OF THE PLAY The «Story of an abandoned doll», the euskara version of which we offer, is a children's play, written by A. Sastre having often been performed in Spain and probably more often outside of Spain. The main theme is based on an old chinese legend, which runs parallel to the biblical theme of Salomon's judgement, which inspired, among others, the Brechtian play «The Caucasian chalk circle», on which Sastre bases, explicitly, his story to develop the strength of this play and the solution to the problem: the struggle for the possession of an abandoned doll between two littlegirls: the poor one who picks it up, and the other who cornes from a well off family, and who after throwing it away she claims her rights of ownership for the only reason that she cannot bear the new relation of possession based on fondness stablished between the old and rejected doll and the poor girl. The «popular tribunal» formed spontaneusly solves the critical situation by the evidence of the chalk circle. A. Sastre, in this play, puts into practice ideas about theatre for and of the children, that he will develop later on his «Minute organ for the theatre and the children» (Real Escuela Superior de Arte Dramático y Danza. Cuadernos de Teatro Infantil 1.— Año 1970). |
