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Show: Kismet
Music: Alexander Borodin
Lyrics: George Forrest, Robert Wright
Book: Luther Davis, Charles Lederer
Type: Noncommercial Audio / Radio Cast
Performers: David Alder, BBC Concert Orchestra, Ethan Freeman, Stephen Hill, Frank Middlemass, Julia Migenes, Katrina Murphy, Stephen Hill Singers
Ardiente Paciencia is the novel by Antonio Skarmeta on which the 1994
Oscar-winning film Il Postino was based.
In contrast to the movie, the musical follows the setting and time frame
of the novel: Isla Negra, a fishing village on the Chilean coast, 1970-73.
Mario, inarticulate and wildly romantic, gets a job as postman to the poet
Pablo Neruda. Learning from Neruda, Mario woos the beautiful Beatriz in a way
that is unusual to her: in words. The pair fall in love, and after being caught
in a delicate situation are forced by Beatriz’s mother, Rosa, to marry. She
puts the couple to work in her taverna.
The up-and-down love story of Mario and Beatriz is set against Chile’s
political backdrop in the years between the election of Marxist president
Salvador Allende in 1970 and General Pinochet’s military coup of 1973.
Throughout the story, Cosme, Isla Negra’s postmaster and a dedicated
left-winger, clashes with Labbe, the right wing political deputy, a contest
which ultimately costs Cosme his life.
Meanwhile, Mario’s hero-worship of Neruda leads him to become not only poet and lover but a Marxist follower as well. His notebook, in which he has naively written ‘Mario Jimenez – Communist’ is found by Labbe, now a henchman of Pinochet, and as Neruda is taken into custody Mario becomes one of Chile’s ‘Disappeared’, leaving Beatriz about to give birth to their baby. She and her mother leave Isla Negra, in the hope that the child will embody the spirit of poetry and freedom with which Neruda has entrusted Mario.