Blood Wedding

My latest installment in Lorca's dramatic trilogy, following "La Maison de Bernarda Alba" and "Yerma" performed at Théâtre des Grottes and Teatro Garagem (Lisbon), will be deeply moving and visually arresting, capturing the poetic essence of "NOCES DE SANG"
On her wedding day, a bride disappears with her former lover. Against this simple backdrop, this drama of honor, Lorca paints a striking portrait of the Andalusian peasantry: land ownership, wealth or destitution, marriage of interest and love, rivalries, settling of scores and the law of the knife. Here, Lorca contrasts Camus' murderous sun with the evil moon. The moon is death, here taking the form of an old beggar woman who shows the murderous knife the way to the heart that will have to bleed, as in a mythological sacrifice.
In the exacerbation of the senses, the fiancée, destined for frustration, by exalting the omnipotence of the devouring fire that sets her body ablaze, asserts her right to freedom, which for the playwright is always the freedom to love.
To love to the point of death.
With his exacerbated lyricism and the fire of his passions, the poet and playwright unfurls the ardent stanzas of an Andalusia of scorched lands and mutilated hearts.
Albert Bensoussan/Gallimard