PAUCARTAMBO

When creating a play following established conventions seen in a theatre tradition around the world, we are not able to adapt every single convention into the performance succesfully, therefore we have to leave aside some of them.
We are now creating aperformance by following conventions seen in the Andean celebration of La Mamacha del Carmen, we are using masks, costumes, adapting characters to fit our story and several of these conventions also include the use of an open environment as a stage, and no use of words as we only express our ideas through mannerisms and body movements.
The presentation is soon and the performance has changed drastically since the starting idea. We first planned this to last 3 days and there would be a performance each day, each lasting 5- to 10 minutes and we would touch upon the idea of useless authorities, a concept cosntantly seen not only in the Peruvian society but inthe world in genral and also inside of oru school.
Now we have had to cut the presentation to last only two days long, we have had to adapt the story into two days. We decided this as we noticed we had to focus more on the structure on the play, and on the content rather than simply presenting a mediocre play.
This experience leads to me a question i find rather important when adding theatre conventions from a different tradition into a play. To what point can we alter and bend conventions when adapting a theatrical tradition while maintaining it as true as possible to the original?