Overview
A bride
promised. A blood vow broken. The vengeance of a village released.
I
want you green. Green wind, green branches. Boat on the ocean. Horse on the mountain.
Written in the
summer of 1932 with the Spanish civil war looming, Lorca's anarchic meditation
on the fate of the individual versus society is a prophetic foreshadowing of
the violence that would soon tear his beloved country apart and lead to his own
tragic end.
The mysteries
of love and hate are explored against the backdrop of a community gearing up to
unleash these elemental forces upon itself, with unstoppable consequences.
What is done
cannot be undone.
Marina Carr's
version of Federico García Lorca’s Blood Wedding premiered
at the Young Vic, London, in September 2019.