{"id":1061,"date":"2010-04-14T18:31:07","date_gmt":"2010-04-14T18:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/?p=1061"},"modified":"2024-04-22T14:39:50","modified_gmt":"2024-04-22T18:39:50","slug":"bodas-de-sangre-blood-wedding-opens-this-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/theater\/2010\/04\/14\/bodas-de-sangre-blood-wedding-opens-this-friday\/","title":{"rendered":"BODAS DE SANGRE (BLOOD WEDDING) Opens this Friday!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Please join us as the\u00a0 Department of Theater presents:<br \/>\n<em>Bodas de sangre (Blood Wedding)<\/em> by Federico Garc\u00eca Lorca<br \/>\nFri &amp; Sat, April 16 &amp; 17, 2010 at 8 pm<br \/>\nSun, April 18, 2010 at 3 pm<br \/>\nFrear Ensemble Theater<br \/>\nLang Performing Arts Center<br \/>\nFree and open to the public<\/p>\n<p><em>Bodas de sangre (Blood Wedding)<\/em> is the Honors Directing Thesis of McFeely Sam Goodman \u201910.\u00a0 The production features a new English language adaptation by the director.<br \/>\nFederico Garc\u00eca Lorca\u2019s <em>Bodas de sangre<\/em> is a play of poetry and passion that draws on traditions of Spanish folklore and Spanish surrealism.\u00a0 When the Bride, engaged to the Groom but in love with Leonardo, the son of an enemy family, runs off with Leonardo on the wedding night, the Groom must pursue them into the forest where the chase reaches its bloody conclusion.\u00a0 The Groom\u2019s Mother, who has already lost a son and a husband to the blood feud between her family and Leonardo\u2019s, predicts the events of the play with a combination of dread and perverse satisfaction.<br \/>\nSet in a bizarre Las Vegas wedding chapel that is both futuristic and evocative of movie theaters of the \u201820s and \u201830s, this production follows a group of punkish neo-flappers driven by the same deadly passions that curse Lorca\u2019s protagonists as they live their own disastrous wedding through Lorca\u2019s text.<br \/>\nMcFeely Sam Goodman \u201810 directs the production. Original music is composed and directed by Jamie Birney \u201810.\u00a0 The design team includes: Tara Nova Webb \u201994 (set and media); Samantha Panepinto \u201913 (costumes); James P. Murphy (lighting); Daniel Perelstein \u201909 (sound); and Logan Tiberi-Warner \u201911 (hair and make-up).\u00a0 Logan Tiberi Warner \u201911 also worked as dramaturg on the production. Bodas de Sangre (Blood Wedding) features Jane Lief Abell \u201911, Jamie Birney \u201910, Nell Bang-Jensen \u201911, Melissa Cruz \u201910, Nolan Gear \u201912, McFeely Jackson Goodman \u201913, Eric Holzhauer \u201910, Sirkka Natti \u201911, Anna Ramos \u201913, Miriam Rich \u201911, and Carson Young \u201910.\u00a0 The faculty advisor is K. Elizabeth Stevens.<br \/>\nAll performances are free and open to the public without advance reservations.\u00a0 For further information about the production, contact Liza Henty-Clark at (610) 328-8260 or lclark1@swarthmore.edu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Please join us as the\u00a0 Department of Theater presents: Bodas de sangre (Blood Wedding) by Federico Garc\u00eca Lorca Fri &amp; Sat, April 16 &amp; 17, 2010 at 8 pm Sun, April 18, 2010 at 3 pm Frear Ensemble Theater Lang Performing Arts Center Free and open to the public Bodas de sangre (Blood Wedding) is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/theater\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1061"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/theater\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/theater\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/theater\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/theater\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1061"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/theater\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6933,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/theater\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1061\/revisions\/6933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/theater\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/theater\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/theater\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}