Close curtain (play b.

music after a minute OC)

1aa
F Ariza-Fermina, I have waited
for this opportunity
for 51 years,
nine months
and four days.
That is how long
I have loved you,
from the first moment
I cast eyes on you until now.
I repeat
to you once again
my vow
of eternal fidelity
and everlasting love.
Fermina- Florentino Ariza...
get out of here!Get out!And don't show your face again for
the years of life that are left to you.and I hope there are very few of them .(exit florentino, fermina emote den CLOSE CURTain AFTER gisi sa
letter)

Narrator- (w/background music) We will enter the romantic domain of Gabriel García Márquez’s “Love in the Time
of Cholera.” (pause 3sec)It’s a story of a fervent first-sight love in mid-19th century. It Recounts the meeting and
courtship of Fermina and Florentino Ariza. OPEN CURTAIN
1a- old house of fermina
(knock,knock)
Maid-im coming im coming (open the door)
Florentino-Senyor Lorenzo Daza (ihatod sa maid kay senyor)
Florentino- Senyor Lorenzo Daza
Papa-yes, ahhhgood news,,,good news,,,no reply
Fermina-look at the shape of the letter not U but A
Bata-mme..mmeee..mis,,,mistook..k..mis…mis..taken..

1b---FLORENTINO’S HOUSE (CASTS- MOTHER OF ARIZA & ARIZA)(naay tables)

Mama- Don't you greet
your mother?Florentino,have you eaten? Have you eaten?
Florentino- (recording or live)"Fermina Daza,for I have learned that is your majestic immortal name.I write this very short note in order
to let you know...that I love you."
Mother- - You haven't been to bed
F.ariza- ssshhhh
Mama- - Are you ill?
F.ariza-No
Mama- You are so pale, my son.
Are you sure?
F.ariza- - I'm not ill.
Mama- Let me feel your head.
What are you writing,
a book?
F.ariza- No, a letter.
Mama-(Florentino playing violin)All these pages,and they're just one letter.But what kind of a letter?(pause) Holy Mother.
It is a love letter.Oh, my son,who is she?
F Ariza- Her name is...Fermina Daza.
They're new in town.Her mother is dead.Her father owns mules. Mama, I have discovered the reason for my existence.
Mama- Don't talk such
nonsense, my son.
F Ariza- (balik upo magsulat npud)
Mama- Does Fermina Daza
return your love?
F Ariza- I don't know.We haven't spoken.That's why I'm writing
the letter.If I can find the opportunity,I'll give it to her,but she's always with her aunt.
Mama- Then you must
win over the aunt, not the girl.( exit mama)
1c-OUTSIDE church, kampana
(action only, ihatag ni florentino ang sulat kay fermina)
CLOSE CURTAIN

2-telegraph office workplace of F. ariza / house of Fermina(casts- aunt escolASTICA, F. ariza, Fermina)
Narrator- The letter he wrote was handed to Fermina successfully after he saw her at the church. Fermina accepts the letter
secretly not to be seen by her father.(pause 5 secs.))They successfully exchange letters through the help of her aunt
Escolástica.One day, a woman arrived in florentino’s workplace as he is a telegraph worker.OPEN CURTAIN
Florentino- Yes?
Aunt escltca- Oh, how much is it
to send a telegram to the village
of Piedras de Moler?
Florentino- Piedras de Moler?Uh-huh.Uh... let me see.It's...
it's not on our list.
Aunt Escltca- you don't send telegrams to Piedras de Moler?
Florentino-no
Aunt Escltca- Th…then….good day to you.
Florentino- Senorita!(saw a letter left on the table then read it PLAY MUSIC)
Florentina-"Dear Florentino Ariza... I am sorry that I have made you wait so long
for my reply.I ask your forgiveness.
Please, write to me
again soon."
Florentino- "Crowned goddess, I enclose
what I know is
a worthless memento.I also write this verse
in honor of my love for you."
Fermina- "I think of you every moment.Now that spring is here, thoughts of you fill me with life. I
will love you forever.
Forever."

3A-(verandas) old house of fermina

NARRATOR- Florentino and Fermina fall in love with each other and after 2 years they secretly become engaged. He
serenades her and calls her his Crowned Goddess.
(HARANA SI FLORENTINO)
Aunt esolastica-sssssshhh, it’s him
Fermina-of course it’s him
Florentino- Senorita Escolastica,
please turn apart so I can talk privately to the young lady.
Aunt esolastica- What impertinence!There's nothing that has to do with her that I cannot hear.
Florentino- Fermina Daza.
Fermina- I am here.
Florentino-We've written
too many letters and too much time
has passed.So now.crowned goddess,
I make this vow.I swear to you
my eternal fidelity and everlasting love,
and I ask in all humility to do me the great honor of marrying me.
Fermina- you must give me time.
Aunt esolastica- Fermina, say yes!Fermina, I may not be married,but I know about love. even if you are sorry later,because whatever you do, you will be sorry
all the rest of your life if you say no.
Believe me, I know
what I'm talking about.
Fermina- Yes, very well.
I will marry you if you... if you promise
not to make me eat eggplant.
(magabot white flower si florentino)CLOSE CURTAIN

3B-BHAY NI FERMINA CASTS FERMINA, AUNT & PAPA

NARRATOR- Secrets in life cannot be forever hidden. Their secret relationship was revealed to her father by a Nun
where she is schooling and was expelled. Her unscrupulous mule-driver widower father, Lorenzo Daza, sends her aunt
Escolástica away. She stays in constant contact however with Florentino through the telegraph system.
Papa- Who is he?
Who is he? Who is he?
Who is this Florentino Ariza?Huh?
And Mother Superiorsays that you write letters to him?
(looking at escolastic)And you... you! You are to blame.
(get the bags and exit)
Fermina-no,..aunt
(aunt exiting,crying)
Papa- We didn't come here for me.
We came here for you. For you!
But you don't know how..just how beautiful you are.You-you-you...you're... you're...
you're much too beautiful
to marry a telegraph operator. We have bigger fish to fry,and believe me... believe me,at your age,love is an illusion.
Christ, by Christ I swear CLOSE CURTAIN

4A-AT THE PORT BEFORE THE DAZA’S WILL LEAVE

(CASTS PAPA, FLORENTNO)
Narrator- the next morning, He also meets with Florentino and threatens him unsuccessfully. He resolves to take her
daughter away and they go on an arduous mule journey over the mountains to Valledupar, visiting her mother's
brother's family and her cousin Hildebranda Sánchez, and also the coastal town of Riohacha.
Florentino- Good morning,
good morning.
PAPA- You and I must talk...
man to man.(they went to the table)
When my wife died
I set myself one goal. One goal...
to turn my daughter into a great lady.
I came to this town because..well, here was the possibility of a grand marriage.
Then an unforeseen obstacle to the plan that I have fought for with my life...
you.So I've come to make
a polite request. Get out of our way.
Florentino- Have you spoken to her?
PAPA- None of that. None of that.
This is a matter for men and it will be decided by men.
Florentino- I cannot answer without knowing
what she thinks.
PAPA- Don't force me
to shoot you.
Florentino- Shoot me.
There is no greater glory
than to die for love. (exit dayon)
Narrator at dinner
gikuha si fermina, maglakaw na sila
papa- Pack!
Fermina- Where are we going?
papa- To our death!
Fermina- You'd better explain.
I'm not leaving. Take it to him now.
(sugo servnt)
Papa-come on let’s go
Fermina-im not leaving, no!1
(mag abot si florentino, ginahangak)
Florentino- What is this?
Fermina- He's taking me away. To the country
Papa- get out of our way….get out(gipush si florentino)CLOSE CURTAIN

Narrator- Even they are far Away from each other they still find ways to connect their love through
telegraph system. (pause) After 2 years absence, Fermina returns by ship (she is now 17 y/o). She now
runs the household and has matured. When she encounters Florentino in a market, she is instantly
disenchanted and erases him from her life, breaking off the engagement. OPEN CURTAIN

4B- market
Florentino-The Arcade of Scribes is not
a place for a crowned goddess.
Fermina- No. No, please.Forget it.
Florentino- Wh-wh-what do you mean
"forget it"?
Fermina- I just...I just realized this... this moment when I saw you. What is between us...is nothing more than an illusion. It... it clouded my eyes.I'm so sorry.
Florentino- You... you just...realized it?
Fermina- Yes.The moment I saw you.(exit)(hilak si florentino)

5- ship
NARRATOR- because of this sadness, florentino leaves town for an upriver telegraphy station, encounters cholera,
and resolves to return to always be in Fermina's town, losing his virginity aboard ship.
Mga tao- please help us, captain help us, cholera cholera…don’t leave please
(after passing that port)
Girl 1-hi…
Girl 2- see his eyes?
Girl1- he looks so sweet and shy
Girl 2- It's the shy ones
you must look out for.(nagduol kay florentino)(something2)
Florentino- Fermina, my vow...I've broken my vow.CLOSE CURTAIN

6-house of fermina’s cousin

Narrator-While Florentino is sailing on his way home. Fermina was suffering from what they believe “cholera”. That
day he met the Doctor named Juvenal Urbino whom became her husband.
(mag abot si doc sa balay)
Maid-Cholera... my mistress
has cholera.
Cousin-ssshh..I'm Hildebranda Sanchez,
the patient's cousin. She's upstairs.
Doctor-I would like you to be present, please,
when I examine her.
Open buttons nako and
Cousin-Her father's with her.
Papa-Oh, thank you.
Thank you for coming.
bra outside
I pray to God.you can do something.
They say you know more about cholera than a...
Doctor-Under the tongue.Vomiting?
How many times?Once, twice?Twice.
Diarrhea? Severe?
Fermina-I... I don't know.I've never had it before.
Doctor-Sit up, please.
It is an intestinal infection.
papa- What?It's not cholera?
Doctor- No.
I'll prescribe medicine.Three days at home
and she'll be well again.
Cousin- Did you hear that?
Oh.(maglapit kay fermina)
Papa- Doctor, wait.wait! How did you learn
so much about cholera?
Doctor- I, uh, studied in Paris
under Professor Proust.
Your daughter.
Papa- Yes?
Doctor- She's very beautiful.
Papa-(hawak sa abaga ni doc)thank you
CLOSE CURTAIN
Narrator- after 3 days the doctor came back and started courting Fermina. His father likes him that is why fermina
cant resist.OPEN CURTAIN
Maid - Senorita.
Fermina (painting)
Doctor- I would like to, um...
take your pulse.Stick out your tongue, please.
Mm-hmm.You are like a...
a new-sprung rose.
Fermina- thank you
Doctor- Do you like music?
Fermina- What is the point
of that question?(talikod fermina)
doctor- No! No, don't!
papa- Do not go.
I saw it all.I saw it all.
Doctor- I... I told your daughter
that she is like a rose.
Papa- True enough
(nag adto kay fermina)
Common,,,you apologize
Fermina- I have nothing to apologize for.
Papa- Don't backtalk back to me, okay?
Do as I tell you.(palakaw sa doctor)
Say something... now!
Fermina= I offer you my most
heartfelt apology, sir.
NARRATOR- The Doctor succeed in courting her,and finally fermina learns to love him and marry Dr.
Urbino. She goes on honeymoon to Paris and overcomes her terror of sexuality. While florentino, he went
back home to his mama and finally knew the news that made him cried.

7- florentino’s house
Mama- You shouldn't have
come back, my son.
Florentino- I had to.
Mama- Why?
Florentino- Something happened and..I had to be near Fermina again, Mama.
Mama- That's all.
But she's not here.
Florentino- What do you mean
she's not here?
Mama- She's in Paris
on her honeymoon. She'll be gone a long time..more than one year.Maybe two years.
Florentino- That's not true, Mama.
Mama- It is true, my son.
Florentino- No.
Mama- Please don't cry. Please...
please don't waste your life.
You must forget her.You must find someone else who will help you forget.
Florentino- I can't forget, Mama.
I will never forget, Mama.
I will never forget, Mama.
CLOSE CURTAIN

NARRATOR-There was war that time, War has no respect for anybody. Yet florentino begins one of hundreds of
discrete sexual encounters, with the Widow Nazaret—then he begins to write a diary.OPEN CURTAIN
8a- (florentino writing/ doub)
Florentino- Women.
Number one...unknown lady in boat.
The first...wondrous...explosion.
Number two..the Widow Nazaret...while doing it,only talks of her dead husband.
Number three.Esmeralda Arau...
a skinny,wiggling tadpole
who'd walk me
through the ferns.
Number four..Maria Estevez...
very dangerous.We were so close
to the street,anyone could
have heard us.
This is the cure
for the pain of Fermina.(exit)
8b-
(sulod sila mr.mrs urbino and friends)
Narrator- at the port convention
Doctor-Now, it took Paris,
the city of love, to bring about this blessed transformation. we are overjoyed
Buntis nako
to no longer be two, but three.
The great purpose
of marriage has made itself clear to all
and we thank you,our dear friends, for your warmth and your congratulations .
(PALAKPAK MGA KAIBIGAN)

Narrator- After seeing his only love pregnant and happy. He went to his unlce Don Leo who was the owner of
Loayza's River Company of the Caribbean to beg for a job and was then hired as a clerk.
Uncle- What do you want?
florentino’- A job.
Uncle- I gave you a job...at Villa de Leyva
and you threw it away.
florentino’- It is different now. I want to be
rich like you.
Uncle- I am not rich.I'm a poor man with money.which is not the same thing.
Why do you want to be rich?
florentino’- So that I can be
someone in society, I need... I need to be worthy of a great lady I cannot stop loving.
Uncle- Who is she? Married?
florentino’- Yes, but I'm waiting
for her husband to die.
Uncle-you’re crazy. So you want a job in the River Company of the Caribbean.
Florentino- Yes, yes.
Uncle- Well, are you any good at, um, writing letters?
Florentino- I think so, I...
I... I write poetry, too
I enter a poem every year
in the Poetic Festival.
I have never won, but...
Uncle- So, you have a way
with words, huh?
Florentino-yes
Uncle- Perhaps you can tell me what this means.On my birthday last year someone made
a speech in my honor.He said I suffered
from lucid dementia.Now what does that mean?
Florentino- Lucid dementia
means aaa you are clearly crazy.
Uncle-hahahaah.. I told you it
ran in the family. Start tomorrow.
Clerk to the board of directors.

9-……………622 open curtain…..pasok ang tigulang na neil…………sulod si fermina tigulang na

Florentino-- I have waited for this
opportunity for 51 years,
nine months and four days. TIGULANG NA MI
That is...how long I have loved you
from the first moment I cast eyes on you
un... until now.
Fermina- Florentino Ariza...
get out of here!Get out!
CLOSE CURTAIN

10---florentinos house
Narrator- Fermina was insulted by florentino’s premature visit and sends him an insulting letter. She struggles with her
feelings and anger over her husband's death, burning his belongings and many luxuries she acquired. She starts to think of
Florentino.OPEN CURTAIN
(FLORENTINO READING THE LETTER)
Fermina- Florentino Ariza,
you are a dreadful,insensitive human being.
How dare you enter my house
on the day my beloved husband died
and utter such monstrous,ridiculous sentiments?You have put me in
a mortal rage,which has caused me
to think about you without wanting to. Do you understand?
I do not want to think about you.
Stay out of my life."
NARRATOR- FLOrentino writes consoling and philosophical letters to Fermina, who is pleased. After a year, he begins
regular visits.CLOSE CURTAIN
Fermina- Some of your letters
were a great comfort.
Florentino- I'm glad to know
you received them.
Fermina- What... what I most
admired about them..was their simplicity. They helped me a great deal
florentino- In what way?
Fermina- They helped me regain some kind
of peace.
Florentino- You cannot
imagine how happy
I am to know that.
Fermina- But I don't agree with
everything you say.We have nothing in common except memories.The young people we
were are banished...that was all
an illusion.
Florentin0-not for me…. Well...I thought this might amuse you.
Fermina-that must be 50 years ago
Florentino - At least.CLOSE CURTAIN

11--SHIP
NARRATOR- Fermina loses her will to live. Her daughter opposes her interest in Florentino and is told to never return to her
house. OPEN CURTAIN She decides to go on a cruise up the Magdalena R and her son is surprised, on seeing her off, to
discover Florentino aboard. As they go up river,he gradually courts her and wins her love. Close CURTAIN They kiss. He learns
that América has killed herself. They make love. They make love. At La Dorada, the final destination upriver, she doesn't want
to be seen by passengers boarding that she knows. The captain, Diego Samaritano, colludes with Florentino and raises the
cholera flag, putting the passengers off. They make tranquil love. On nearing their port of origin, they realize they will be
discovered and she feels returning "will be like dying". Florentino asks the captain to turn the boat upriver again and sail back
and forth "Forever".OPEN CURTAIN

FLORENtino- I love you,

my crowned goddess.
We're going to
stay like this.
Fermina- You can't mean it.
Florentino- From the moment
I was born I have never said anything
I did not mean.
Fermina- And how long do you...
you think we can...stay like this?
Florentino-forever
Narrator- After 53 years,
seven months
and 11 days and nights,
florentino’s heart was
at last fulfilled.And discovered,
his joy,
that it is life
and not death
that has no limits.
García Márquez's main notion is that lovesickness is literally an illness, a disease comparable to cholera.
cholera as the disease, and cholera as passion, Ladies and gentlemen the casts……….

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 LOVE IN THE TIME OF CHOLERA

CASTS

Stage manager(curtain incharge)- Jocelyn Pandato/ Nobailla Abdullatip

Setting Raiser- Hetiayon
Vendor- Rhea Abergonzado
Girl 2 @ Ship- Nobailla Abdullatip
The Child- Mary Joy Catunlad
The House Maid- Kathlyn Joy Patenio
Lady in the ship- Rose Dizon
The Widow- Rhea Abergonzado
Esmeralda Arau- Riza Manuel
Maria Estevez- Hetiayon
14 yrs old lady- Mary Joy catunlad
Don Leo (uncle of florentino)- William Paul Tayong
Aunt Escolastica Robleza
Lorenzo Daza (father of fermina)- Richard Salnungan
Mother of florentino- Bhriendyl Cabales
Dr. Urbino(husband of fermina- Mark Villarosa
Fermina Daza- Ellaine Fabiolas
Florentino Ariza- Neil Legarte
Narrator- Bhriendyl Cabales

Technical Team
Lettering Incharge Mary Joy catunlad
Music Director- William Paul Tayong
Head of Stage Designer- Mark Villarosa w/ mem.cooperation
Assistant Director- William Paul Tayong
Over-all Director- Ellaine Fabiolas