Blood Wedding by Federico Garcia Lorca

theatre & dance

Blood Wedding by Federico Garcia Lorca A Guildhall School Production 4 - 9 October 2012 / 19:30, 14:00 Silk Street Theatre, Guildhall School
Tickets: £8 (£4 concessions, Guildhall staff & students, Equity) subject to availability	sold out

A classic of twentieth-century theatre, Lorca’s Blood Wedding is based on a newspaper fragment which told of a family vendetta and a bride who ran away with the son of the enemy family. Lorca uses it to investigate the subjects which fascinate him: desire, repression, ritual and the constraints and commitments of the rural Spanish community in which the play is rooted. With visceral directness, Ted Hughes fuses Lorca’s vision to his own, and the result is a powerful, poetic text which captures all the violence and pathos of the play for an English-speaking audience. Tuesday 9 October at 6pm Pre-performance platform At this platform, the creative team for Blood Wedding will discuss the challenges of bringing text, music, movement and dance, design, lighting and video together to mount this production. Performers: Christian Burgess, director Agnes Treplin, designer Neill Brinkworth, lighting designer Sue Lefton, movement Charlie Smith, sound designer