Intro ideas

As a director I have chosen to keep my production of Blood Wedding roughly within its original early 20^th century rural Spain as I believe the major themes of death, conformity and non-conformity and the role women play in binding a family transcend both place and time. They are as relevant and pertinent now as they were when Lorca first wrote them. I also believe that much of the play exists in a timeless beauty that doesn't really need locating too strongly.    I also believe that the strong characters that Lorca has written should be the real focus of the play and therefore want to allow them to operate with the minimum of distraction for a contemporary audience.