About this Event
Paper chairs, a homegrown theatre collective that specializes in radical reinventions of classic theatre, offers audiences a peep into the process of bringing such a piece to life in the development of a brand-new version of Federico García Lorca’s Bodas de Sangre currently titled, A Bloody Wedding.
Lorca was born (1898) and murdered (1936) in rural Andalucia at the onset of the Spanish Civil War. Before his death, he wrote a trilogy of tragedies based on the impossible trappings of rural life. The first of these, Bodas de Sangre, depicts a long-held feud between two families set off again by an ill-fated marriage proposal that takes two men to the grave. This adaptation digs into the rigid rules of his world and where they collide with Texas in 2022. Love and marriage? Happily ever after? Not so much. Lorca points us to something deeper, darker and more difficult to name.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
CRASHBOX, 5305 Bolm Road, Austin, United States
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