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Synopsis
In a small rural village in Spain, a son has decided to marry a young woman from a neighboring village. His mother, overprotective after the deaths of her older son and husband at the hands of the Felix family, worries about his choice of bride and his departure from home. When they meet the bride and her father, the marriage is approved and the bridegroom is thrilled. However, the bride is secretly still in love Leonardo, a member of the Felix family. The wedding goes on and the guests start arriving, all while the bride is struggling with inner turmoil: can she be content in her choice of groom or will she be magnetically pulled to her other love, the enemy’s son? Secrets are revealed and choices are made that create chaos and havoc on the wedding day. Will the bride and groom end up together? Will the enemy prevail? How much blood will be spilled, and is it fate or is it chance? Federico García Lorca’s Blood Wedding is a beautiful balance of traditional romantic tropes and unconventional circumstances mixed with a little magic.
Show Information
- Category
- Play
- Age Guidance
- Thirteen Plus (PG-13)
- Number of Acts
- 3
- First Produced
- 1933
- Genres
- Drama
- Time & Place
- A rural town in Spain, 1930s
- Cast Size
- large
- Licensor
- Dramatists Play Service
- Ideal For
- College/University, Community Theatre, Diverse Cast, Large Cast, Regional Theatre, Mostly Female Cast, Includes Mature Adult, Young Adult, Adult, Elderly, Child, Early Teen, Late Teen Characters
Context
Blood Wedding was written in 1932 and is considered part of Federico García Lorca’s “rural trilogy” alongside his other two plays Yerma and The House of Bernarda Alba. The play is based on a newspaper story about a family vendetta and a bride who ran away with the enemy’s. Blood Wedding has become one of the most famous plays in the Spanish theatrical canon and is now performed all over the world. It has been adapted into many languages and many art forms including dance, opera and
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Part One, Act One, Scene One
In a home in a rural village in Spain, a Bridegroom tells his Mother that he is leaving for the vineyards. The Mother is terrified when he leaves home because her husband and other son were murdered and she fears the same thing will happen to him, her last surviving family. The son and husband, who are buried on the property nearby, were killed by members of the Felix family, so they have become the Mother’s enemy. She cannot let it go and the Bridegroom
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Songs
A song with an asterisk (*) before the title indicates a dance number; a character listed in a song with an asterisk (*) by the character's name indicates that the character exclusively serves as a dancer in this song, which is sung by other characters.
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