by Federico Garcia Lorca
in a version by Ted Hughes
director: Phil Willmott
md and composer: Joe Fredericks
choreography: David Greenall
set design: Libby Watson
costume design: Becky Gunstone
lighting design: David Holmes
sound design: Charlie S Brown
producer: Suzanna Rosenthal
cast
Bea Holland
Daniel Tawse
Emily Patrikios
James Alper
Jonathan Penton
Marc Akinfolarin
Owen Young
Richard Meek
Ruth James
Ursula Mohan
Prepare for the full-blooded passion of a hot Spanish night... A village in Andalusia bustles with preparations for a rural wedding... but at midnight it isn't the handsome groom who races his stallion through the moonlight to claim the bride.
Under the stars a heady brew of jealousy, desire, forbidden love and an ancient family feud simmer as the whole community is caught up in pursuit of the lovers - and knives flash in the darkness. But as the certainties of daylight slip away, the watchful moon brings his poetry, magic and the figure of death to taunt the villagers.
Spanish playwright, Federico Garcia Lorca, was inspired by a newspaper account of a local woman who abandoned her husband-to-be on their wedding day to escape with her childhood sweetheart. Taking these few facts as a starting point he explores desire, repression, ritual and the dilemmas of a rural community blighted, like ours, by knife crime.
Don’t miss this unique chance to experience one of the 20th century’s most powerful plays in a version by the celebrated poet Ted Hughes that is much admired for the way it captures the spirit and letter of the original Spanish.
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