Blood Wedding November 20, 2009

University Theatre ends the first half of it's 2009-10 season with Federico Garcia Lorca's 'Blood Wedding,' a passionate story of desire, repression, and ritual written by one of the greatest Spanish playwrights and poets of the 20th century. Lorca wrote the tragic 'Blood Wedding' in 1932, and it was first performed in Madrid a year later. Lorca built the play from a newspaper fragment that told of a family vendetta and a bride who ran away with an enemy family. Like many of Lorca's plays and poetry, the story is filled with symbolism and explores the constraints and commitments imposed by rural Spanish traditions. traditions. Director Norma Saldivar draws