Blood Wedding by Federico Garcia Lorca

"You think time heals and walls seal up, but it's not true. When something has got right deep into you, there's nobody can root it out."

Leonardo

BLOOD WEDDING

THE PLAY

"You have to follow where your blood takes you" (First Woodcutter)

The first performance of BLOOD WEDDING was in 1933 and was based on a real murder that took place in 1928.

BLOOD WEDDING is a poetic melodrama set in rural Spain and depicts the tragic events following the wedding of a young couple - Bride and Groom. Leonardo, Bride's her former lover, is himself already married to someone else. He comes to her see one last time before the ceremony and attends the wedding festivities. During the celebrations, Leonardo and Bride disappear and a search party lead by Groom hunts them down into the forest.

THE WRITER

"Lorca's theatre, then, does not merely display the fated struggle to resist isolation and meaninglessness; it embodies the struggle and it risks the loss." Nicholas Round, Introduction to Four Major Plays, 1997

Federico Garcia Lorca (1898-1936) was a Spanish playwright, director and poet.

Lorca's style was constantly evolving. He was always experimenting to create theatre that was radical, poetic, questioning - but also accessible and popular. Lorca was friends with, and a contemporary of, Salvador Dali, who encouraged him to deepen his artistic exploration.

A few weeks into the Spanish Civil War in 1936, a few months after finishing his final play, he was arrested and murdered by Nationalist authorities. His remains have still not been found.