La Culebra Play Summary

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My encounter with La Culebra

I went to a play called La Culebra by Pamela Gerke and Directed by Aubrey Urban, at Johnson County Community College, in the Bodker Black Box Theatre. La Culebra is a Multicultural children’s play suitable for all ages. The play is filled with ethics, logic, animal rights, and is a comedy with a few serious undertones.
La Culebra is an ancient story that derives from the Aztec culture, its story tells of what happens to a farmer that saves a La Culebra (The Snake’s) life. The farmer says that if you do good deeds, good will come back to you, but the snake disagrees and says that they should ask the other animals to settle their argument. If the farmer loses, the snake can eat the farmer. Burro thinks that when