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Diez minutos para el concierto

Ten minutes until the concert

Your goalI can say what will happen and when.

Saturday evening on the market square: stalls, lights, {@pancakes}. Sun, then rain, then sun again, and you are in Elvira's old raincoat. You are at the café stand, and you are the cat's minder. The concert will start at eight. Then Javier runs up: his mouthpiece is gone. And where is the cat?

Tap a word to see what it means.

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Clara
Café, dos euros. Tortitas, tres. Tú cobras y yo cocino.
Coffee, two euros. Pancakes, three. You take the money and I cook.
Vale. ¿Dónde está Michi? No lo veo. Tengo que vigilarlo.
All right. Where is Michi? I cannot see him. I have to watch him.
Vale. ¿Dónde está Michi? No lo veo. Tengo que vigilarlo.
All right. Where is Michi? I cannot see him. I have to watch him.
Clara
Debajo de la mesa. Duerme hasta el concierto.
Under the table. He is sleeping until the concert.
Early evening at the festival. Elvira comes past the café stand with her handbag and looks up at the sky.
Elvira
Buenas tardes. ¿Qué tal el tiempo?
Good evening. How is the weather?
Como en la lista de Tomás: sol, lluvia, otra vez sol.
Like in Tomás’s list: sun, rain, sun again.
Como en la lista de Tomás: sol, lluvia, otra vez sol.
Like in Tomás’s list: sun, rain, sun again.
Elvira
Luego, viento. Quizá nieve.
Wind later. Perhaps snow.
¡Nieve no, por favor!
No snow, please!
¡Nieve no, por favor!
No snow, please!
Elvira
Empieza a las ocho. Primero toca Javier.
It starts at eight. Javier plays first.
Elvira
Me siento delante del escenario, con los niños. Lucía canta y Tomás baila.
I sit in front of the stage with the children. Lucía sings and Tomás dances.
¿Tomás baila? ¿De verdad?
Tomás dances? Really?
¿Tomás baila? ¿De verdad?
Tomás dances? Really?
Elvira
Todavía no lo sabe. Pero baila.
He does not know yet. But he will dance.
Javier runs up to the stand with his trumpet, pale, and points at the empty end.
Javier
¡Ayuda! ¡No encuentro mi boquilla!
Help! I cannot find my mouthpiece!
¿La boquilla? ¿Qué es?
The mouthpiece? What is it?
¿La boquilla? ¿Qué es?
The mouthpiece? What is it?
Javier
La pieza pequeña de aquí. Sin ella no puedo tocar.
The small piece here. I cannot play without it.
¿Dónde la dejas normalmente?
Where do you normally leave it?
¿Dónde la dejas normalmente?
Where do you normally leave it?
Javier
Aquí, en el puesto. Al lado del café.
Here, at the stall. Beside the coffee.
Under the table the blanket is empty, with a few grey hairs in the dent, and a coffee cup lies on its side. The cat is gone.
¿Al lado del café? Un momento. ¿Dónde está Michi?
Beside the coffee? Wait. Where is Michi?
¿Al lado del café? Un momento. ¿Dónde está Michi?
Beside the coffee? Wait. Where is Michi?
Javier
¡Diez minutos para el concierto! ¿Qué hago?
Ten minutes until the concert! What do I do?
Elvira takes a small old trumpet out of her handbag and holds it out. Javier stares at it.
Elvira
Espera aquí.
Wait here.
Javier
¡Mi primera trompeta! ¡La de la foto!
My first trumpet! The one in the photo!
Elvira
Sí. Está conmigo desde hace dieciocho años.
Yes. I have had it for eighteen years.
Javier
Gracias, Elvira. Hoy toco para ti.
Thank you, Elvira. Today I play for you.
Y yo busco a Michi.
And I will look for Michi.
Y yo busco a Michi.
And I will look for Michi.

Elvira opens her handbag and takes out a small old trumpet: the one from the photo. "I kept it." At eight Javier plays it and the whole square listens. At 20:14, in the middle of the first song, all the lights go out.