Free family fiesta with music, dance, comedy, food – and the world premiere of Loco for Love, a play about Cervantes and Shakespeare coming back from the dead to wrestle in a storytelling smackdown, where you get to vote on who wins.
Loco for Love fiesta combines high-spirited family fun with captivating cultural exploration and an attractive ticket price.
Like a party during Florida’s Spanish past, this fiesta offers a whole tapas-menu full of treats. Here you can taste foods that Cervantes celebrated in Don Quixote, sing songs that Shakespeare wrote into Hamlet, tap your foot to dances that date back to times before anyone Spanish or English had set foot in America, and laugh along with comic scenes that poke fun at timeless human foibles. There will even be two professional wrestlers on hand to show you how theater tricks hundreds of years old still turn up in hand-to-hand entertainment today.
At the center of the fiesta stands a play that lets you see the world through 17th-century eyes – Loco for Love: Cervantes v. Shakespeare in the Cliffhanger Wedding. This fascinating play combines scenes that are 400 years old with responses that audience members give the actors on the spot, to create a storytelling smackdown where you’ll decide who tells the best story about a wedding gone wrong, Cervantes or Shakespeare. In the process, you’ll explore differences between historic ideas about going crazy for love, just in time for the 200th anniversary of Florida transitioning from a Spanish provincia to a US territory.
The price is right, and the place is ideal. Entrance to the fiesta is free (though vendors may charge for their wares). All activities are at Railroad Square, in the Mickee Faust garden and Schnittman Hall and Clubhouse, right next to newly developed green space with City playgrounds and picnic tables.
For more information and detailed schedules, visit Theater with a Mission’s website and Facebook page.
free admission
Friday, September 22
5 p.m. Spanish treats
6:30 p.m. Charles Santiago, classical guitar
7:30 Loco for Love
Saturday, September 23
9:00 a.m. Samantha’s Gift serves arepas and empanadas
Astronomical Italian Ices serves helados
9:30 a.m. That Klassic Tag-Team:
demonstration of pro-wrestling “Basics”
10 a.m. Dr. Russell Almond demonstrates 17th-century musical instruments
Dr. Thomas Cavano and Joe Fisher duel dramatically with swords
10:30 noon “A Little Bit of Mexico / Un Poquito de Mexico”
dancers from the Panhandle Area Educational Consortium
11:00 Loco for Love
1:30 p.m. “A Little Bit of Mexico / Un Poquito de Mexico”
dancers from the Panhandle Area Educational Consortium
2 p.m. Dr. Russell Almond demonstrates 17th-century musical instruments
Dr. Thomas Cavano and Joe Fisher duel dramatically with swords
2:30 p.m. Terry Galloway performs Shakespaearosaurus
Loco for Love
3:30 That Klassic Tag-Team:
demonstration of pro-wrestling “Psychology”
6 p.m. Charles Santiago, classical Spanish guitar
6:45 That Klassic Tag-Team:
demonstration of pro-wrestling
“Protagonist v. Antagonist Dynamics”
7:30 p.m. Loco for Love
2017/09/22 - 2017/09/23
Additional time info:
Friday, September 22
5 p.m. Spanish treats
6:30 p.m. Charles Santiago, classical guitar
7:30 Loco for Love
Saturday, September 23
9:00 a.m. Samantha’s Gift serves arepas and empanadas
Astronomical Italian Ices serves helados
9:30 a.m. That Klassic Tag-Team:
demonstration of pro-wrestling “Basics”
10 a.m. Dr. Russell Almond demonstrates 17th-century musical instruments
Dr. Thomas Cavano and Joe Fisher duel dramatically with swords
10:30 noon “A Little Bit of Mexico / Un Poquito de Mexico”
dancers from the Panhandle Area Educational Consortium
11:00 Loco for Love
1:30 p.m. “A Little Bit of Mexico / Un Poquito de Mexico”
dancers from the Panhandle Area Educational Consortium
2 p.m. Dr. Russell Almond demonstrates 17th-century musical instruments
Dr. Thomas Cavano and Joe Fisher duel dramatically with swords
2:30 p.m. Terry Galloway performs Shakespaearosaurus
Loco for Love
3:30 That Klassic Tag-Team:
demonstration of pro-wrestling “Psychology”
6 p.m. Charles Santiago, classical Spanish guitar
6:45 That Klassic Tag-Team:
demonstration of pro-wrestling
“Protagonist v. Antagonist Dynamics”
7:30 p.m. Loco for Love
Mickee Faust Clubhouse
609 Railroad Square, Tallahassee, FL 32310