In ¡Vamos! Let’s Go to the Market, by Raúl the Third, Little Lobo makes his way through a crowded local market and smells cinnamon churros, watches traditional dancers, buys some candy, reads a comic book—and fantasizes about meeting the wrestler El Toro.
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Cover of ¡Vamos! Let’s Go to the Market,; image courtesy Versify/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
Recently on a quest to find a new and unusual activity that he would get excited about (and get him off his keister), I came across 5 Wits in Albany — an immersive, thinking adventure experience with cinema-level special effects. His birthday was the perfect excuse for giving it a try.
viewed 03/07/19
Before the doors leading into the CenterStage
open at the ’62 Center for Theatre and Dance, audience members waiting to see The Last Days of Judas Iscariot are
invited to form lines behind three candle-bearers. We are led into a solemn
scene lit by a single streetlight, where we stand before a woman who is
mourning the death of her child. Another figure sits behind her at a quiet
distance. The mother talks about her own pain and the shock of losing a grown
son coupled with the excruciating memory of how alone he was in the end.…