Name: Blood Wedding
Start: 2022-12-07T19:30:00+00:00
End: 2022-12-07T21:30:00+00:00
Location: Embassy Theatre, The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama

This event has multiple dates:

Wednesday 7 December 2022, 7.30-9.30pm
Thursday 8 December 2022, 2.30-4.30pm
Thursday 8 December 2022, 7.30-9.30pm
Friday 9 December 2022, 7.30-9.30pm
Saturday 10 December 2022, 2.30-4.30pm
Saturday 10 December 2022, 7.30-9.30pm

Download the Programme

BLOOD WEDDING, 7-10 December 2022, Embassy Theatre programme.pdf.pdf

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By Federico García Lorca, translated by Ben Naylor & Paula Rodriguez

Performed by MA Acting Classical

Placements MA Movement: Directing & Teaching, MA Actor Training & Coaching

La sangre corría/Más fuerte que el agua

Blood flowed/Stronger than water

Lorca’s expressionist masterpiece, written on the eve of the Spanish Civil War, remade for the present moment in a new translation by Ben Naylor and Paula Rodriguez. A desolate landscape: the drylands, the vineyard, the creek, the church. The ancient tyrannies of family, land, property, honour, obsession, entitlement. And at the bleeding heart of it all, a bride and a groom, the unforgiving sun and the vengeful moon.

Pre-show talk and discussion on Lorca, Friday 9 December 6.15pm

Blood Wedding is one of Lorca’s most acclaimed and produced works, a play that continues to resonate almost 90 years after it was first produced. Professor Maria Delgado, author of Federico Garcia Lorca (Routledge, 2008) and Central’s Vice Principal, talks to actor/director/translator Paula Rodriguez and MA Acting Classical Course Leader and production director Ben Naylor, about their new translation of one of the 20th century’s most iconic plays, the challenges of translating Lorca into English, and the theatrical and political legacy of Lorca’s life and work.

Showtimes

Wednesday 7 - Saturday 10 December 2022, 7.30pm
Thursday 8 and Saturday 10 December 2022, 2.30pm

Running time is 2 hours including a 15-minute interval.

There are scenes of violence, sex, sexual violence and coercion, and social coercion.

Location

Embassy Theatre, The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama

More Information

The play takes place in the mind of its author, and in a small rural community in Andalucia or elsewhere in the world, a few or many generations ago.
Rather than learning a prescribed speech system to represent this community, each of the actors is working with rural accents or dialects with which they have a personal connection, either of heritage, geography or association. The text of the play has been adapted to accommodate these choices. All of the accents are to be thought of as belonging to this community, and not ‘other’.
Shortly before five in the morning of 18 July 1936, in the early weeks of the Spanish Civil War, Federico Garcia Lorca, Spain’s greatest living poet and playwright, was murdered by Nationalist militia in an olive grove between Viznar and Alfacar, outside his home city of Granada.

Booking and Venue Information

Tickets

Tickets: £10 general admission / £5 concessions.
Complimentary tickets: industry and associated professionals.
NB: Tickets are non-refundable.
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We aim to open the house 20 minutes before the start of the show. Seating is unallocated. Late comers may not be admitted.
Proof of eligibility is required for all concessionary rate tickets.
Accessibility

The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama is fully wheelchair accessible, please speak with our box office team on 02077228183 or boxoffice@cssd.ac.uk if you have any further enquiries.
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