A liddle gin and tonic for you, Sue?
Advantages: Painfully funny...
Disadvantages: Toe-curlingly cringe-inducing!
I feel like I have a spiritual link with Mike Leigh, the writer of “Abigail’s Party”. You see many many years ago Kirsty1 was to be found acting her little heart out in a bid to gain a drama O level. Oh yes. Who else could be entrusted to teach this yo ...
 Kirsty1 10.11.2003 · Read full review
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Review of Abigail's Party - Mike Leigh
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Spanish Romeo and Juliette, only better and more interesting!
Advantages: Beautifully written, full of passion and Fatality
Disadvantages: It all can depend on what translation you get
A tale of lust, love and betrayal, Lorca’s ‘Blood Wedding’ is one of the most gripping and exciting plays I have read. I often don’t like reading plays as I find that their vivid meanings can not be fully explained in the short paraphrased stage directio ...
allyb24 30.08.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Blood Wedding - Federico Garcia Lorca
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Sex, Death and Betrayal in rural Spain
Advantages: Poetic language; emotive plot; stylised characters
Disadvantages: Beauty of language might be marred by bad translation
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 &# ...
Amadahn 15.03.2001 · Read full review
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Spanish Passion Reaches Fever Pitch
Advantages: Engrossing, beautifully crafted language
Disadvantages: none
Picture this, it’s a warm summer night in the heart of the Spanish countryside, there is laughter and great excitement emanating from a small opening in a doorway leading to an expansive great hall where a banquet is taking place in your honour, for i ...
tastymorsel 26.08.2004 · Read full review
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Review of Blood Wedding - Federico Garcia Lorca
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A gripping tale of anger, lust, jealously and love
Advantages: A well-paced, thrilling and beautifully written and crafted play
Disadvantages: There are no disadvantages with 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 ...
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