BLOOD WEDDING January 1, 2010 – Boulder, Colorado – University of Colorado, Department of Theatre and Dance is proud to present Federico Garcia Lorca’s tragic masterpiece of betrayal and forbidden passion “Blood Wedding.” “How can it be that something as small as a pistol or a knife can kill a man?” A bridegroom's mother's grief for her dead son and husband – and fear for the safety of her remaining son – creates a powerful sense of foreboding. This tragic play explores the theme of inevitable fate whereby the disasters of the past are repeated in the present. Entwined with Lorca’s poetry as well as Spanish guitar – Lorca’s passion — Blood Wedding focuses on a bride forced to choose between duty and love on her wedding day. On the surface, Blood Wedding is a tragedy that plays out the conflict between individual wishes and societal decrees and laws. The personal tragedy is that of love missed. Lorca, possibly the most important Spanish poet and dramatist of the twentieth century, uses a newspaper fragment to investigate the intriguing subjects of desire, repression, ritual and the constraints of the rural Spanish community in which the play is rooted. |
