The Hunchback of Seville at Eckerd College

HUNCHBACK, a zany, bawdy trip back in time, tells the backstory of Spain’s stumbling on to the New World. At the turn of the 16th century, Christopher Columbus has just returned with gold in his pockets and blood on his hands. But the gold is mostly filling the pockets of the Spanish royal family: heir apparent Princess Juana La Loca is a raving lunatic, her Royal Highness Queen Isabella is dying, and her brilliant adopted sister, the humpback Maxima Terriblé Segunda is living out her life locked away in a tower, until it is decided that the future of the country is in her nerdy, reclusive hands. In a bitingly funny and madcap take on the past, Maxima weaves her way through mountains of prejudice, politics, religion, and the horrors of history.