Director: Delgerbuyan Uranchimeg
Playwright: Federico Garcia Lorca
Institution: The Mongolian State University of Arts and Culture (MSUAC)
Venue: Chung - Ang University, Korea
Time: 19:30，May 19, 2018
Event: 5th Asian Theatre Schools Festival
Director’s Notes
The tragedy "Blood Wedding" by the Spanish poet and playwright Federico Garcia Lorca tells the story of a family vendetta. Lorca was inspired to write this classic play of the 20th century after reading a newspaper article about a horrific crime. A man was murdered in a farming village for running away with a bride from a family in feud with his own. The groom's cousin was guilty of the murder. Fascinated by the investigation, Lorca includes many details of the real-life people involved in the play. We used physical elements such as physical flexibility, balance, dance and so on.
The crew consists of six actors. The play will be performed using only body language, without any scenography nor stage decorations. The main idea of the director is to express the conflict between honour and debt as well as love and passion.
Synopsis
Running Time: 45 minutes
Federico Garcia Lorca's "Blood Wedding" is a tragedy about on a woman and two men who love her. The play examines the social norms that keep the woman from being with the man she loves. The power of desire is explored as the play unveils the consequences of gender roles and isolation.
The Bride is in love with Leonardo, but their families do not get along, so Leonardo marries another woman. The Bride also plans to marry to another man she doesn't love to appease her family's wishes. Although Leonardo is already married, he confesses to the Bride that he is still in love with her. At first, she does not respond to him, but eventually confesses that she still loves him, too.
Despite these confessions, she goes on with her marriage to the other man, but on the night of her wedding reception, she elopes with Leonardo. When their disappearance is revealed, the Groom's Mother commands everybody to search for them. In the forest, where the Bride and Leonardo have fled to, the play takes a surrealistic turn. The Moon and Death encourage the Groom and Leonardo to kill one another. Leonardo and the Groom meet and kill each other in a knife fight.
At the end of the play, the Bride returns to the church hoping the Groom's Mother will kill her, but she doesn't.
The play ends with both women reminiscing about the deaths of the two men. It should be noted that an alternate version of the play exists in which the Bride returns to town and is killed by the Groom's Mother to restore balance in the story.