Blood Wedding
Published on 19. September 2019
Book
Paperback/Softback
80 pages
978-0-571-36014-7 (ISBN)
Description
A bride promised. A blood vow broken. The vengeance of a village released.
I want you green. Green wind, green branches. Boat on the ocean. Horse on the mountain.
Written in the summer of 1932 with the Spanish civil war looming, Lorca's anarchic meditation on the fate of the individual versus society is a prophetic foreshadowing of the violence that would soon tear his beloved country apart and lead to his own tragic end.
The mysteries of love and hate are explored against the backdrop of a community gearing up to unleash these elemental forces upon itself, with unstoppable consequences.
What is done cannot be undone.
Marina Carr's version of Federico Garcia Lorca's Blood Wedding premiered at the Young Vic, London, in September 2019.
I want you green. Green wind, green branches. Boat on the ocean. Horse on the mountain.
Written in the summer of 1932 with the Spanish civil war looming, Lorca's anarchic meditation on the fate of the individual versus society is a prophetic foreshadowing of the violence that would soon tear his beloved country apart and lead to his own tragic end.
The mysteries of love and hate are explored against the backdrop of a community gearing up to unleash these elemental forces upon itself, with unstoppable consequences.
What is done cannot be undone.
Marina Carr's version of Federico Garcia Lorca's Blood Wedding premiered at the Young Vic, London, in September 2019.
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Edition
Main
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
Children/juvenile
Product notice
Paperback (UK-B)
Dimensions
Height: 194 mm
Width: 127 mm
Thickness: 10 mm
Weight
96 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-571-36014-7 (9780571360147)
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Federico Garcia Lorca (1898 - 1936), poet and dramatist was one the greatest Spanish writers of the twentieth-century. He was killed by Nationalist partisans at the age of thirty-eight at the beginning of the Spanish Civil War. Marina Carr was brought up in County Offaly. A graduate of University College Dublin, she has written extensively for the theatre. She has taught at Villanova, Princeton, and is currently Associate Professor in the School of English, Dublin City University. Awards include the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, the Macaulay Fellowship, the E. M. Forster Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the Windham Campbell Prize. She lives in Dublin with her husband and four children.