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MKT - Past Show - Blood Wedding
MKT - Past Show - Blood Wedding

19 Sep 2019 - 2 Nov 2019

Blood Wedding

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From the extraordinary creative vision of acclaimed director Yaël Farber (Les Blancs, Mies Julie, The Crucible) comes this evocative and visceral production of Federico García Lorca’s most famous tragedy, in a new adaptation by the multi award-winning Irish playwright Marina Carr.
A bride promised. A blood vow broken. The vengeance of a village unleashed.
Passions and traditions collide with unstoppable consequences as the mysteries of love and hate are explored against the backdrop of a community gearing up to unleash these elemental forces upon itself. What’s done cannot be undone.
Written in the summer of 1932, Lorca’s original Blood Wedding foreshadows the violence that would soon both tear his beloved country apart, and lead to his own tragic end.
In this brand new adaptation, set in a rural village of parched mountains and plains, Lorca's meditation on the fate of the individual versus society is conjured into visceral new life. A warning for our times. 
I want you green. Green wind, green branches. Boat on the ocean. Horse on the mountain.

Creatives

Adaptation by Marina Carr
Director Yaël Farber
Design Susan Hilferty
Light Natasha Chivers
Sound Emma Laxton
Composition Isobel Waller-Bridge
Movement Imogen Knight
Casting Director Julia Horan CDG
Fight Director Kate Waters
Voice and Dialect Rebecca Gausnell and Brendan Gunn
Jerwood Assistant Directors Monique Touko and Emily Ling Williams

Cast

Bríd Brennan
Scarlett Brookes
Gavin Drea
Aoife Duffin
Annie Firbank
Olwen Fouéré
Roger Jean Nsengiyumva
Faaiz Mbelizi
Steffan Rhodri
Thalissa Teixeira
David Walmsley