Blood Wedding
Title
Blood Wedding
Department
Theatre
Keywords
Theatre
Production Type
Fourth Year Acting Student Production
Description
“To burn with desire and keep quiet about it is the greatest punishment we can bring on ourselves”.
Nationalist sympathisers murdered Spain’s celebrated dramatist Federico García Lorca shortly after the outbreak of the Civil War in 1936. Whether the assassination was politically motivated is however a subject of debate.
Lorca’s innovative plays are renowned for their evocation of the profound and primitive passions of Spanish rural life. His Blood Wedding (which he subtitled ‘a poetic tragedy in 3 acts and 7 scenes’) is based on a newspaper fragment which told of a family vendetta and a bride who ran away with the son of the enemy family. Bloodshed and deaths followed when they were hunted down and killed. Lorca used this story to investigate the subjects which fascinated him: desire, repression, ritual, religion and the constraints and commitments of the rural community in which the play is rooted. The landscape of Blood Wedding is a poetic one of heightened language, song, music and rhythm. Lorca employs the symbols and images which pervade most of his writing… blood, steel, the moon, horses, death, bulls, dark woods and heady flowers.
Whilst Lorca knew political and sexual oppression intimately, Blood Wedding is not concerned with regime change. Instead, it recognises how the flames of passion can be stamped on and stifled but never put out. His now classic tale of passion is dangerous, fast paced and ultimately a story about the yearnings of the heart which can never be commanded.
Cast:
Servant/ Chorus - Anathi Godlo
Death/ Chorus - Batsetsana Motloung
Mother/ Chorus - Bokang Ntsutle
Leonardo - Brett Ilsley
Father/ Chorus - Cullum McCormack
Wife of Leonardo/ Chorus - Emma-Jane Pieters
Girl/ Chorus -Klara Schoonraad
Bridegroom - Liam Walsh
Mother-in-Law/ Chorus - Megan Tromp
Moon/ Chorus - Samuel Alexander
Bride- Tamzin Williams
Woodcutter/ Chorus - Tebatso Molapo
Neighbour/ Girl/ Chorus - Tshiamo Moretlwe
Nationalist sympathisers murdered Spain’s celebrated dramatist Federico García Lorca shortly after the outbreak of the Civil War in 1936. Whether the assassination was politically motivated is however a subject of debate.
Lorca’s innovative plays are renowned for their evocation of the profound and primitive passions of Spanish rural life. His Blood Wedding (which he subtitled ‘a poetic tragedy in 3 acts and 7 scenes’) is based on a newspaper fragment which told of a family vendetta and a bride who ran away with the son of the enemy family. Bloodshed and deaths followed when they were hunted down and killed. Lorca used this story to investigate the subjects which fascinated him: desire, repression, ritual, religion and the constraints and commitments of the rural community in which the play is rooted. The landscape of Blood Wedding is a poetic one of heightened language, song, music and rhythm. Lorca employs the symbols and images which pervade most of his writing… blood, steel, the moon, horses, death, bulls, dark woods and heady flowers.
Whilst Lorca knew political and sexual oppression intimately, Blood Wedding is not concerned with regime change. Instead, it recognises how the flames of passion can be stamped on and stifled but never put out. His now classic tale of passion is dangerous, fast paced and ultimately a story about the yearnings of the heart which can never be commanded.
Cast:
Servant/ Chorus - Anathi Godlo
Death/ Chorus - Batsetsana Motloung
Mother/ Chorus - Bokang Ntsutle
Leonardo - Brett Ilsley
Father/ Chorus - Cullum McCormack
Wife of Leonardo/ Chorus - Emma-Jane Pieters
Girl/ Chorus -Klara Schoonraad
Bridegroom - Liam Walsh
Mother-in-Law/ Chorus - Megan Tromp
Moon/ Chorus - Samuel Alexander
Bride- Tamzin Williams
Woodcutter/ Chorus - Tebatso Molapo
Neighbour/ Girl/ Chorus - Tshiamo Moretlwe
Language
English
Script Type
Scripted
Year Created
2020
Cancellation
Due to Covid-19, and the South African National Lockdown implemented, this production was not staged.
Opening Date
7 April 2020
Closing Date
9 April 2020
Start Time
19h30
Ticket Price
R70 / R50 (students/pensioners)
Performance Venue
Geographic Location of Performance
Cape Town
Producer
CTDPS
Director
Text By
Federico García Lorca
Cast
Anathi Godlo
Batsetsana Motloung
Bokang Ntsutle
Brett Ilsley
Cullum McCormack
Emma-Jane Pieters
Klara Schoonraad
Liam Walsh
Megan Tromp
Samuel Alexander
Tamzin Williams
Tebatso Molapo
Tshiamo Moretlwe
Musical/ Sound Composer
Godfrey Johnson
Set Designer
Lungile Cindi
Lighting Designer
Kieran McGregor
Costume Designer
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