the people's choir and theater
testimonies 
 

The People’s Choir and Theater were two groups made up of fifty students, led respectively by Eduardo Martínez Torner and Alejandro Casona. They carried a by 4x6-meter portable stage, which was quickly assembled by the actors themselves. The idea was to bring theater to the people, performing outdoors. The repertoire consisted of short plays of the Spanish classical theater (Juan del Encina, Lope de Rueda, Cervantes and Calderón de la Barca). Casona also added his adaptations of other plays, such as “The tale of the young man who married a very strong and fiery woman” (Exemplo XXXVº from The Book of the Examples of Count Lucanor and of Patronio)
Performance of Cervantes’ ''El juez de los divorcios” in Mombeltrán (Ávila), February 16, 1932. On stage, José Marzoa y Santa Bárbara. Residencia de Estudiantes, Madrid
The choir’s repertoire consisted of folk songs. The choir sang in plays and performed romances and songs by Góngora and Garcia Lorca. “El romance de la loba parda” (romance of the brown wolf) lived on as a vivid memory in the minds of the missionaries.