The play Orosman at Zafira is a Komedya written by Francisco Baltazar, a renowned Filipino writer who wrote it for the Teatro de Tondo.. This theater form, Komedya, is not a comedy, but in fact a colonial Spanish drama that revolves around saints or warring kingdoms. However, this play deviates from the standard Komedya; original komedyas were about the Moro-Christian conflicts while Orosman and Zafira is about the characters rather than religion. The play was an adaptation of Baltazar’s original in order to suit modern Filipino audiences. Examples of the difference made for the play are the Filipino tribes who were originally Turkish kingdoms; the neo-ethnic music for a tribal feel of the play and; the dances instead of marches in the original text.
The story of Orosman at Zafira begins with the introduction of the narrator, Zelima. She sings about the Marruecos, Tedenst and Duquela tribes and Mahamud, sultan of the entire realm and the Pacha of the Marruecos who calls for a feast. All the pachas have been invited including Bousalem, Pacha of the Tedenst, and Zelim, Pacha of the Duquela. Bousalem suspects that Mahamud clandestinely plots to kill all the pachas to gains absolute power. With this in mind, Bousalem orders the assassination of Mahamud in the feast.
The scene then turns into the meeting of the lovers in the story. Gulnara, Mahamud’s wife, and Aldervesin, his adopted son, begins an affair alongside the meeting of Orosman, Tedenst Sultan Bousalem’s son, and Zafira, Marruecos Sultan Mahamud’s Daughter. The affair was soon found out by Mahamud and immediately ordered Aldervesin’s execution while Orosman begins to court Zafira. Gulnara attempts to free Aldervesin but fails to do so. Zafira, who wishes to help Gulnar...
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...ing the war comes from her grief and the tribal form of justice which was an eye for an eye method. She begins the war to exact revenge on her father’s behalf as well as claiming back the throne that Bousalem seized from her family. Gulnara’s participation in the war is caused by her guilt since she believed that the late sultan’s assassination was partly her fault. Orosman’s decision to fight for the Marruecos is because of his love for Zafira.
All in all, the play was an amazing rendition of the original Komedya. The changes done to the script is done superbly. Even if the music of the play kept blasting me on all sides to the point that my ears began to ring, still, the music was a superb accompaniment to the acting. When all is said and done, I’m sure that I’d be happy to promote this play if the University of the Philippines is planning on producing it again.
Galchen creates the character of her narrator to be very similar to that of the young narrator in “Araby” in a modern setting. In their youth, each narrator becomes infatuated and obsessed with someone who does not realize. The narrator of “Araby” falls in love with his friend Mangan’s sister, as seen in that he states that “when she came out on the doorstep [his] heart leaped” (123). He forms an obsession with her, as evidenced by the fact that he “had never spoken to her . . . and yet her name was like a summons to all [his] foolish blood” and in that “her image accompanied [him] even in places the most hostile to romance” (123).
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The reader is first introduced to two kings, Shahrayar and Shahzaman, who are brothers both betrayed by their wives. Shahzaman mistakenly discovers his wife's infidelity just before going to visit his brother. He is in agony over the betrayal and loss. While Shahzaman is at Shahrayar's palace he mistakenly discovers that his brother's wife is having immoral sexual relationships with a slave man. Although curiosity did not play a part in Shahzaman's discovery of the two women's infidelity, Shahrayar's curiosity drove him to discover his wife's betrayal and to endure the great suffering caused by it. When Shahzaman refused to tell his brother about what he had seen his wife doing, Shahrayar insisted that he tell him:
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