Blood Wedding/Bodas de Sangre

Theatre鲍鱼tv presents Blood Wedding/Bodas de Sangre.

By Federico Garcia Lorca

Spring 2011

Directed by Dora Arreola
Scenic Design: Andrew Cohen
Costume Design: Marilyn Gaspardo Bertch
Lighting Design: G.B. Stephens

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Federico Garc铆a Lorca's great tragedy of death and desire, Blood Wedding/Bodas de Sangre will close the mainstage season of 鲍鱼tv's School of Theatre & Dance. Directed by faculty member Dora Arreola, the production will feature alternating performances in Spanish and English performed by two different casts.

Arreola, a recent addition to the School of Theatre & Dance, has a background both in physical theatre and in contemporary dance. "It has been one of my dreams, and now is a pleasure, to be directing Bodas de Sangre/Blood Wedding in both English and Spanish. Rehearsing the text in two languages allows us to understand Blood Wedding from different perspectives. In Spanish we embrace the beauty of the language and the metaphorical world of Lorca's play, while the text in English shows us a fresh perspective. Both allow us to extract into images the movements and emotions of the surrealistic world of Lorca and his artistic contemporaries in Spain.鈥�

A man stands with two women spaced farther apart on either side of him. The woman to the man鈥檚 left is looking forlornly downstage while placing her hands gently on a wooden tabletop that has a cup, pitcher, and hat on top of it. The man is looking right toward the woman on his right side and the woman, who is sitting in a chair next to an empty chair while knitting, looks sideways back at the man.

A man and woman stare at each other through a group of colorfully dressed dancers, she is wearing bridal clothes and accessories and he is dressed in a white shirt, vest, and pants as if he is the groom.

A woman sits under a canopy of tree branches playing the violin while surrounded by figures draped in green and brown cloth as if they were dryads.

A photo of all the cast onstage in their costumes.