Blood Wedding | A Feast of Lorca

In the following essay, Mona Molarsky provides an overview of the countries that performed Lorca's plays for his 100th birthday commemoration.

A spate of international productions serve up the passionate depths of García Lorca's plays.

Three days before opening night, New York's Gramercy Park Theater is dark inside. It's so black you have to feel your way down the aisle. Then a soft, dream-like spot appears upstage left and gradually brightens.

“A little more, just a little more!’’ calls director Rene Buch from the depths of the balcony. ‘‘Yes. Perfect. Que bonita!’’ he laughs, shifting into Spanish. A young man walks downstage, draped in white chiffon. ‘‘Do you like it, Flor?’’...

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