La Celestina

Callisto, a handsome young nobleman with a brilliant ingenuity, chases a hawk into the orchard where Melibea is, with whom he falls deeply in love. Faced with her rejection and advised by her servant Sempronio, he decides to entrust her care to Celestina, to achieve Melibea’s love through her. Through tricks, the pimp manages to make Melibea fall in love with Calisto. The latter’s servants try to exploit a benefit of their own to the passion of his master: that he had promised a gold chain to Celestina if he managed to make Melibea fall in love among all of them. When this happens, the servants claim her share and when Celestina refuses, they kill her. They are arrested and executed by justice, of which Calisto has news the next day. The lovers soon forget these sad events and enjoy love until a fortuitous accident ends the life of the young gentleman. Faced with the death of her beloved, Melibea climbs a tower and throws herself from it after declaring the causes of suicide to her father. She ends the play with tears and some moral reflections by Pleberio, Melibea’s father.

7th Alicante International Classical Theater Festival