"The wedding day came, and the shining water," goes one of the characteristically succinct and pungent lines in Federico Garcia Lorca's mournful "Blood Wedding." Garcia Lorca based this 1933 play ...

Can you take Federico Garcia Lorca away from Spain? Can you remove this genius, arguably the finest dramatist of all time to work in the Spanish language, away even from the Spanish diaspora? Those… ...

It’s difficult to stage “Blood Wedding,” since Garcia Lorca was writing about rural people in his native Andalusia, with their unsophisticated traditions and propensity toward violence. To ...

Like its title, “Blood Wedding” is morose: rest assured that everything ends in tragedy. But the 1933 script, written by poet and playwright Federico García Lorca, is also a classic of Spanish ...

With his season-opening production of Federico Garcia Lorca's Blood Wedding / Bodas de Sangre, Stages artistic director Rob Bundy intends to broaden his company's horizons on several fronts ...

“Blood Wedding” does not end well. The Federico García Lorca play, now at Scoundrel and Scamp Theater, opens as a mother laments the killing of her husband and a son. “Knives, knives. Curse ...

“Blood Wedding” premiered in Madrid in March of 1933 and later that year in Buenos Aires. It is, along with “Yerma” and “The House of Bernarda Alba,” one of Lorca’s best-known works.

You’ve heard of the jilted bride. Now consider the instantly abandoned husband. In Federico García Lorca’s “Blood Wedding,” the wife runs off with her former lover minutes after the ceremony that ...

A different sort of bloodstream for ‘Blood Wedding’ (Wilma Theater) An old play becomes an altogether new experience in this adaptation of Federico García Lorca's classic.

Open Circle Theater's misguided staging of Federico García Lorca's dark tale of yearning, "Blood Wedding," changes the play's setting from rural Spain to the American Southwest and adds a ...

It’s no mistake that James Graham-Lujan, Lorca’s friend and the first (and still finest) translator of his plays into English, used Synge’s tragedy as model for his version of Blood Wedding.

Denied free expression, Lorca was no stranger to the struggles of individuals longing to escape their societal duties. Regardless, “Blood Wedding” captured the universal agony of a yearning heart.