Blood wedding: New translation by Laurent Paul Sueur

Blood Wedding.

A fatherless young man who is deeply attached to his mother is going to marry an immature woman. He is the only surviving man of a family that has been involved in a blood feud. Unfortunately, his future wife is the ex-girlfriend of Leonardo, a member of the opposing family. She is still madly in love with him but he is married and the father of a boy. While the wedding celebration continues, Leonardo kidnaps the bride. After a man-hunt, the two men kill each other. The groom’s mother can now mourn all the men of her family. In fact, it is the insane impulsive nature of men that killed them. Women are intelligent enough to control their anger, that’s why they survive… but they remain alone!


Federico Garcнa Lorca.

Federico Garcнa Lorca was born on the 5th of June 1898 in Fuente Vaqueros (province of Granada). After his studies, he published poems, plays and became the director of a university student theatre company. He lived a complicated life in a complicated country but always tried to depict “the human heart”. Killed on the 19th of August 1936, his work did not disappear with him. What he wrote is so humanly vivid that we still read it. Are we attracted by the sorrows of his tormented characters? No, we are just mesmerized by the incandescent truth of their human nature!