Nov 20, 2023
Vancouver, BC - Studio 58, the professional theatre training program at snəw̓eyəɬ leləm̓ Langara College, brings passion and longing with flamenco dance to the stage with Federico García Lorca’s Blood Wedding.
“They kept on trying to fool each other, but their blood got the best of them.” Recognized for his surreal and socialist works, Lorca’s Blood Wedding is a tragedy of love, repression and duty. Set in rural Spain, a bride is torn between her fiancé and her former lover, and must balance feuds between the families . Blood Wedding is a deeply poetic play that explores the isolation of loyalty versus personal freedom.
“Federico García Lorca's Blood Wedding premiered in 1933, three years before he was assassinated by the Fascists during the Spanish Civil War for being a socialist and a gay man,” explains Director Carmen Aguirre. “This play is about forbidden love, resistance to oppressive societal norms and a foreshadowing of the war. I have set the play in an Andalucian bar on the eve of that war where a group of flamenco dancers, musicians, actors and cantaores tell us this tragic story.”
CREATIVE TEAM
Written by Federico García Lorca
Director – Carmen Aguirre
Assistant Director – Jimmy JinPyo Hong
Stage Manager – Elliot Roberts
Choreographer – Oscar Nieto
Assistant Choreographer – Michelle Harding
Set and Props Designer – David Roberts
Costume Designer – Amy McDougall
Associate Costume Designer – Melissa McCowell
Lighting Designer – Itai Erdal
Sound Design – Emad Armoush
Projection Consultant – Candelario Andrade
Intimacy Director – Lisa Goebel
Fight Director – Jonathan Hawley Purvis
SHOWTIMES & TICKETS
Blood Wedding runs from November 23 - December 3 with showtimes at 3:00pm and 7:30 pm. New this season, check out a relaxed performance on December 2 at 3:00 PM. The show is at Studio 58 at Langara College, located at 100 West 49th Avenue, Vancouver, BC. Tickets from $10 are available online at studio58.ca.
ABOUT STUDIO 58
Studio 58 is the professional theatre training program at snəw̓eyəɬ leləm̓ Langara College, located on the unceded territory of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) Nation, Vancouver, BC. Led by Courtenay Dobbie, the program offers nationally recognized training for both actors and production personnel and produces six public productions annually. More information at studio58.ca.