Pedro de valdivia

This play can be considered a musical and a comedy and cultural. It acts the history and life of Pedro de Valdivia, one of the men who came to America at the time when it was recently discovered and being attacked and governed by the spanish.

Actors were only 3, but characters were many. One of them, did the role of Pedro while the other 2 the secondary characters. And with musical transitions that were played by themselves on stage, they got to change setting, characters and scenes dynamically. That is another aspect of the play that is good to notice: The actors played all the music and SFX in the play, no background music.

Although some props were there, such as the mini pedro puppet, the map on the table and some other things, mostly props were invisible and exaggerated  to make it funny, for example, the horse.

Accent was used well, they did the chilean accent really convincible and using some parts of the accent that were most known, to make it easy to identify it and to make it funny.

I think actions and were fixed. They were done exact. I mean that there was no room for improvisation, because it was all marked and it couldn't be rearrenged imrovisingly. For example when they were palying music you couldn't leave one behind, or when Pedro was taling and the other 2 actors were using the puppet the actions must be at the same time, and that requires coordination, and practice i guess.

I dont know if actors playing the music is better than music in the background, yes, it is more entertaining the see them play, but shouldn't actors concentrate on acting instead of playing instruments? Or does that count as acting too?