Skip to main content

Posts

Showing posts from May, 2026

Fernando Play

Fernando Play Venue :  Theater at Catholic High School or University. Curtain opens.  NARRATOR addresses theater audience. NARRATOR:   Understand we have students from Social Studies and Religion classes in the audience today.  NARRATOR:   Good.  Then I shall begin with a question?  In the reconquest of Spain.  Can you name the person or persons who drove the Moors out of Spain. AUDIENCE:  Chorus - Ferdinand & Isabella, 1492.  Any more questions. (Laughter) NARRATOR:  True. , but only one Kingdom--Granada.  Who drove the Moors out of the vast majority of Spain 200 years before Ferdinand & Isabella?  Who recaptured almost all of Spain and  several major cities including the 2 most important supposedly unconquerable Moorish strongholds Cordoba  and Seville?  If you don't know, that's OK. Very few students or even teachers do. His name was Fernado, a youth of 18 years of age. He would be known as...