Theres no curtain at the young vic, this being a theatre in the round. We hope that you find the activities, photos, and script analysis enriching to your classroom expeqblhrience and helpful as a companion to blood wedding. It is a story of the bride, mother, wife, servant, motherinlaw, fates of the gypsy chorus, and even the beggar woman. Theatre critics often group blood wedding with lorcas yerma and the. This new version of federico garcia lorcas blood wedding by tanya ronder premiered at the almeida theatre, london, with gael garcia bernal, directed by rufus norris. Blood wedding, like many modernist plays, challenged the tradition of theatrical performance. Uh delivering new vision for classic play blood wedding. Arranged marriage blood wedding features the stage. Blood wedding to take stage at university theatre entertainment. His version of lorcas blood wedding was premiered by northern stage in newcastle and derby in autumn 1996. The helmerich school of drama and university theatre will present blood wedding from feb. The protagonists of blood wedding are ordinary women confronting their own passionate natures and rebelling against the constraints of spanish society.
It truly captures the sentiments though probably better in spanish than english. The university of houston school of theatre and dance is pleased to present this study guide arranged by the bfa theatre education majors. In much of lorcas work we see women as predominate figures. Blood wedding the story of blood wedding is truly about the women in the play. It was written in 1932 and first performed at teatro beatriz in madrid in march 1933, then later that year in buenos aires, argentina. Masha in three sisters, the 10 minute play festival, mucama in blood wedding, princess frederica in the snow queen. Rather than just portraying action on stage, this play incorporated elements of song, poetry, music. Blood wedding plays through sunday, november 19, 2017 at the wilma theater 265 south broad street, in philadelphia, pa. The theatre space is unusual, all the staff and actors were so lovely and passionate.
This theatre could become quite a gem and blood wedding is a very good play in two halves. The end of side a, twelfth night, king lear, and the beaux stratagem. Medea premiered in the dublin theatre festival in 1988, toured in england in 1989 and was broadcast by bbc radio 3. Blood wedding is the first play in lorcas dramatic trilogy. His antigone and the trojan women were both first performed at the peacock theatre, dublin, in 1986 and 1993 respectively. Blood wedding is one of federico garcia lorcas bestknown plays but its murderous plot was in fact based on a shocking article from a spanish. Sydney theatre company and colonial first state global asset management present. Lorcas blood wedding is a classic of twentiethcentury theatre. The play also examines issues concerning the conflict between personal. The story 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. David irelands lively but lightweight adaptation moves lorcas classic into a 21stcentury world of knife crime and elvisthemed wedding discos mark fisher tue 10 mar 2015. Pdf on mar 1, 2002, karen bennett and others published the duende in england.
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