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A SAMUEL FRENCH, LTD. TITLE
Full-Length Play, Drama / 10w, 6m, 1girl(s)
by Federico García Lorca, translated by Gwynne Edwards
Two families in a semi-mythical rural Spain are intricately bound in an unbreakable cycle of murder and revenge. A young couple from rival clans plans to marry, much to the distress of the bridegroom’s mother whose husband and other son have previously been murdered through clan rivalry.
In Lorca’s Blood Wedding, a death-bound love triangle at the center of the play fuels passions and propels the story to its unstoppable tragic conclusion. An arranged country marriage between the children of rich landowners is about to take place. A past lover, himself in a loveless marriage, cannot allow the wedding to take place and spirits away the bride, who goes with him willingly on her wedding night. An entire town goes after the lovers in the middle of the night where pursuers and pursued plunge into a realm of deep darkness where the moonlight is not friendly, and the forest is not shelter enough. Lorca’s image-laden poetry unfolds the story with the fire and power characteristic of his work and the fateful resonance that marked his own tragically short life.
Blood Wedding premiered in Minneapolis, MN at the Guthrie Theatre on 31 January 2001. It was directed and choreographed by Marcela Lorca. The original Spanish-language production premiered at Teatro Beatriz in Madrid in March 1933.
MOTHERBRIDEGROOMNEIGHBORWIFEMOTHER-IN-LAWLEONARDOFIRST GIRLSERVANTFATHERBRIDESECOND GIRLYOUTH3 WEDDING GUESTS3 WOODCUTTERSLITTLE GIRLMOON
Various simple settings in rural Spain during the 1920s or early 1930s.
“Blood Wedding is rich in poetic aspiration and deserves to be appreciated.” – Brooks Atkinson, The New York Times
“Potent and poetic… a tragedy so beautiful… that you may leave the theater in tears because you’re awed and so moved.” – The Minneapolis/St. Paul Star Tribune