Isabel Zendal e os nenos da varíola. Obra de teatro infantil

Abstract

This work presents an children´s play adapted by Sinda Cundins Caamaño from  the Primary School  Labarta Pose de Baio (Zas, A Coruña). María Solar Os nenos da varíola (2017) is inspired by Antonio López Mariño's research on the role of Isabel Zendal, headmaster of an orphanage in  a Coruña, and several protagonists of the chickenpox expedition that travelled to America from Coruña at the beginning the XIX century. There is also a performance of the work in charge of two children in the 6th grade of Primary School Labarta Pose, directed by their teacher and author of the current work. The performace took place on April 18^th, 2018n at the main auditorium at UDC within the framework of the Service-Learning Project in charge of the UDC professors Begoña Bas and Roberto García Morís, in collaboration with their 3^rd Year Degree in Primary Education students and with the 4^th year of Secondary Education students from the Secondary School Ramón Menéndez Pidal-Zalaeta, and  within a Project for Education for Development, directed by NGO Architecture without fronteers (ASF).