Performance in English

SYNOPSIS

Federico García Lorca’s Blood Wedding is a poetic tragedy set in rural Andalusia that explores passion, fate and duty under the crushing weight of patriarchy and tradition.

This is the story of a wedding, the two women at the centre of it, the Bride and the Mother of the Groom and their respective struggle with or adherence to the misogynistic society they belong to.

When the bride disobeys the unwritten rules, the villagers' rage tacitly calls upon the Moon and Death who, like mid-wives, accompany the Lover and the Groom to their inescapable deaths. Through its blend of realism, lyricism, and folklore, Blood Wedding exposes the conflict between individual and society, the weight and appeal of tradition, and how patriarchy persists championed and furthered by its victims, women.

Recommended age: Not suitable for children under 14 years old.

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