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AS PRIMÍCIAS (THE PRIMITIAE)
by Dias Gomes
Music: Carlos Lyra
Lyrics: Paulo César Pinheiro
CHARACTERS:
Proprietor: the large landowner
Mara: the bride-to-be
Lua: the bride-groom-to-be
Donana: the bride’s mother
Vicar
Conformists
Antagonists
THE STORY
The musical comedy takes place in a small village in Europe or Latin America sometime between the VIth and the XXth centuries.
A couple on the eve of their wedding, suffer over the day to come, when the lord of the region will make use of his Right to the First Night, also known as the Right to the First Fruits, the primitiae, before the groom.
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