To celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month, the PROCER Organization, is putting on a play “El Amor y las Estacas,” or About Love and Stakes, a three-part comedy written by Manuel Fernandez-Juncos and adapted for stage by María E. Villanueva.
The play will take place at the West Boynton Library, 9451 Jog Road, at 3 p.m. Oct. 4.
Even PROCER President Israel Pabon is getting involved and is set to play Juan de la Mata-Colon in the play.
“I'm playing the old guy in the play because we could not find someone to do so,” he said. “Not saying that I’m old or anything.”
Pabon said the play is centered on an old Puerto Rican tradition where young men would leave stakes in the yards of women they wanted to court.
If the young woman put the stake by her window, it meant she was interested.
“Every year the library system puts on a cultural show like a dance or arts and crafts,” Pabon said. “This year we decided to put on a full play.”
Hispanic Heritage Month is celebrated from Sept. 15 to Oct. 15.
Pabon said he is excited about the play because he gets to act as the jealous father.
For information, call 561 -734-5556.
Mike Rothman can be reached at mkrothman@tribune.com.