The Castillo de Jumilla became yesterday morning in a makeshift theater stage, where the Thalia Theatre Group performing the play "Los Amantes del Castillo," a popular legend, after decades of mouth, came alive in Susana Skin Thomas (Ana Maria) and José Carlos Díaz (Sergio).
Many were curious and curious to this wonderful place that came to enjoy the story of impossible love between Anna Maria and Sergio, two young lovers, whose social differences make it impossible to romance that ends with a tragic end.
Sergio, a young good looking, looking for job reached in Jumilla vintage, with the luck of falling into a hacienda where fate would stumble with Ana Maria, daughter of the owner of the farm.
Although corresponded soon, the fate of the girl's father had prepared for it was a very different, the heir of another estate, lazy, lazy, womanizing would, according to her father, her fiance.
Soon, the father finds the meetings and sends young girl to live in the village, a decision that followed her lover leaving the farm in his footsteps.
The Castillo de Jumilla, was their meeting place until the fiance finds out and tries to break this loop, which ends tragically with the death of Sergio and eternal lament of the young Ana Maria, ending severing his beautiful mane and taking habits, because "his mane, or was for Sergio, or only be to God."
The event ended with an emotional delivery granddaughter Molly, the woman who kept the legend for years, the story bound to preserve detail as part of the legend all these years and keep it alive until today.
The next appointment with the Thalia Theatre Group will be on 19 October, with the staging of "Funeral of Ãrike", which will be performed in the Iberian necropolis of Coimbra Barraco width.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Jumilla