[Asa Palomera]
Director, Playwright and AuthorWomen of Asia
Theatre Company
Blood Wedding
Rarely
produced in Australia, this is the first of Federico Garcia Lorca's
famous 'rural' trilogy (including Yerma
and The House of Bernada Alba).
The play richly blends poetry and drama with an almost primitive
ritualism. The forces of nature, the moon and death, hover over and
interact with the characters of this passionate love triangle, which
ends with a beautiful stage full of weeping women.
García Lorca's central themes are love, pride, passion and
violent death, which also marked his own life. Branded an enemy to
Franco's fascist government, he was shot in Granada without trial and
buried in a grave that he had been forced to dig for himself. One of
his assassins later boasted, that he shot "two bullets into his arse
for being a queer".
