Federico Garcia Lorca, «Blood Wedding»Federico Garcia Lorca | ISBN-10: 0571190065 | 1997 | English | MP3 (128kb/s) | 77 MB

The Spanish title of Federico Garcнa Lorca's great modernist play is Bodas de Sangre, or 'Wedding of Blood'. The title and theme came from a murder committed in 1928 in the town of Nijar in the Spanish province of Almerнa, when a young woman, Francisca Caсada Morales, ran off with her cousin, Francisco Montes Caсada, moments before her wedding to a local man. The cousin was then shot dead by the prospective bridegroom's brother. Lorca read about the incident in the Heraldo de Madrid newspaper and kept the cutting until he came to write the play in 1932.

An evocative meditation on fate, war, tradition, passion and repression, inspired by the true story of a fatal feud between two families in the Almeria province, high in the mountains of rural Spain. A version by Ted Hughes.

With:Bridegroom/Woodcutter - Carl PrekoppBride - Sarah SmartLeonardo - William AshLeonardo's Wife/Girl - Andrea RiseboroughFather of Bride - David FleeshmanBeggar Woman/Neighbour - Mary CunninghamServant/Mother-in-Law - Ellie HaddingtonMoon - Claire BenedictGirls - Liz CarterWoodcutter - Sam Curtis

Woodcutter - Chris HannonLittler Girl - Daisy Jones