Blood Wedding - Federico Garcia Lorca

...directions, however I couldn’t put Blood Wedding down. I must say now that this next part of the review contains some spoilers, although I knew what was going to happen before I read it and still found it brilliant and shocking. Lorca himself grew up in rural Spain, and this upbringing can clearly be seen to influence his later work, especially in Blood Wedding. The play is set in rural Spain where the land is dry and therefore goof, fertile land ...
...is a bad translation. As Blood Wedding is originally written in Spanish, it is important to make sure that you get a good translation in order to fully appreciate the language and so that the text still makes sense. I have seen that some translations may have entire sentences different to others. The translation I have got is brilliant. It is the Methuen Student Edition translated by Gwynne Edwards. Out of the other versions I have seen in my class, ...

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Review of Blood Wedding - Federico Garcia Lorca

As the title suggests, this is a play steeped in blood, passion, and death - written by one of the most poetic playwrights of the Twentieth Century. Federico Garcia Lorca is probably Spain’s most celebrated dramatist, and I have always felt that ‘Blood Wedding’ is his finest play. The story is not a complex one – in fact it is almost archetypal in its simplicity: on her wedding night, a young bride elopes with her lover, ...
...and a knife duel takes place between him and Leonardo in which both are killed. The shamed bride returns to face the fury of the bridegroom’s mother. Although the story is not a particularly original one, there are two additional elements that mark this play as exceptional. The first is the way that the playwright utilises personifications of natural phenomena. Lorca chooses to embody the Moon as a young woodcutter dressed in white, and similarly ...

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Review of Blood Wedding - Federico Garcia Lorca

...about a love triangle and blood feud between two Spanish families in the heart of the Spanish countryside. There is a wonderful irony to this play in that Lorca, who is beyond doubt and exceptional writer, was actually homosexual and wrestled against the Spanish cultural norms of the day. The tensions he experienced are clearly evident throughout the book. Lorca begins by introducing the key characters and building the tensions between family members ...
...to your word. The beauty of this book is that it is a story about life, about choices and above all about the consequences of the decisions you make………………. If you have never had the pleasure of seeing or reading Lorca’s Blood Wedding, I would strongly recommend it. ...

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Review of Blood Wedding - Federico Garcia Lorca

Federico Garcia Lorca's homosexuality led him to a place of solitude where he developed a particularly poetic quality of observation. 'Blood Wedding' highlights his genius, perhaps more than any of his other works. It is a story of lust, love, jealously and anger. It reveals what can happen when we allow pride to go unchecked. Perhaps, most importantly, it draws our attention to the cesspit of hypocricy that broods under the surface of so-called ...
...the Spanish stage. He had grown tired of the 'realism' with which it was beset. He wanted to do for the stage what Dali was doing for pictures. Hence, in 'Blood Wedding' we see groundbreaking innovation. The moon, for instance becomes a character who hauntingly bewails her solitude - surely a product of Lorca's own sense of isolation - and finds it easy to make friends with death. However, the innovations sit alongside more established, indeed ancient, ...

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Review of Blood Wedding - Federico Garcia Lorca

Blood wedding, is fantastic as an A level piece of performance for any teachers out there. The students quickly get to love it as it has so much sex and death in it and they find the poetry and lyricism of the piece with ease. Our approach for unit 5 owed much to The Godfather film and we transported the action to Sicilly. The father became the Mafia Don and it all flowed very easily from there, with ring kissing and allegiances owed to the ruling ...
...setting. The symbolism of blood is heavy throughout the whole piece, and the encounters between parents and children will resonate as much with that which is left unsaid as the spoken words exchanged. We staged the performance using promenade theatre (the audience walks around following the actors as they move about different sets for each scene) using three areas and standing the audience in a taped off quadrange Shadow theatre was used for the ...

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Review of Blood Wedding - Federico Garcia Lorca