“Blood Wedding”: A Unique Theatrical Collaboration Between the Philadelphia Artists’ Collective and Drexel University PHILADELPHIA – A bride flees into the night with her former lover, leaving her awaiting groom and a bloodstained vendetta behind. A special performance of Federico García Lorca’s classic “Blood Wedding” will take place on Nov. 6 and will run through Nov. 23 at Drexel’s Mandell Theater, as the Philadelphia Artists’ Collective (PAC) and members of Drexel University’s Co-Op Theatre Company collaborate in staging this classic Spanish tragedy. Written in 1932, “Blood Wedding” details a blood feud that rises between two families when the bride takes flight on her wedding night with the son of the enemy family, her ex-lover. Spanish poet and playwright Lorca presents a tragic story of betrayal and vengeance, desire and oppression, destiny and nature through this eerie and compelling play. …show more content…
“Blood Wedding” is directed by Damon Bonetti, co-founder of the PAC. Bonetti is also a faculty of Drexel University. Broadway veteran Judith Lightfoot Clarke, Victoria Rose Bonito, Jay Hernandez and Eric Scotolati are among the nine professional actors with whom Drexel students will perform alongside in the show. Students will also be in charge of behind-the-scenes jobs, such as stage manager, prop designer, master electrician and others. “Prior to performance time, there will be a special pre-show in the theater’s lobby where actors and musicians will lead spectators into the theater through an extravagant wedding procession,” says
One of the most celebrated plays in history, “Romeo and Juliet”, was written by William Shakespeare in the late 16th century. It is a story about two lovers that have to meet in secret because of an ongoing family feud. Tragically, because of their forbidden love Romeo and Juliet take their lives so they can be together. In 1997, a movie was adapted from the play “Romeo and Juliet”, directed by Baz Lurhmann. However, as alike as the movie and the play are, they are also relatively different.
Through out the play `Blood Brothers’ Willy Russell explore the themes of class and society through Mickey and Eddie. He uses to look at the ideas of different classes in society within the play.
The story, No Fear Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet written by Shakespeare, is a story of star crossed lovers who kill themselves because of their families. Their families are rivals because of the hatred and violence towards one another. They often resemble rival gangs in present day that fight over signs, revenge, and territory. The actions of gangs and the events in Romeo and Juliet are almost the same even with the hundreds of years difference.
This was a story about a sudden storm coming to an American town. The author Kate Chopin wrote this story in 1898, at that time, America was during the two concept conflict time. This story happened when husband and son outside, wife met her ex in their home. The wife could not reject Alcee, so they made a mistake during the storm. After storm past, everything was back to normal, Calixta and Alcee returned to their family. In many people’s thought, Calixta and Alcee are betrayed their families; however, in Chopin’s mind, they are not wrong, they just give each other a chance to vent feeling, this connection does not mean they are betray their families, and I agree with her opinion. Love and marriage are separate, people can have many lovers, but they just have one partner.
‘ Two households, both alike in dignity’. From ancient grudge to new mutiny’. And then in the middle of it all there is a pair of lovers. both from different families and backgrounds. The way in which the conflict and the brawl, which makes the violence.
Federico Garcia Lorca considered the “problem of women” in Spain in the early 20th century to be the oppression of women which was created by ambiguous Spanish traditions. During this time period women were struggling to find their voice in the political, social and economic issues of Spanish society. Only to be viewed as fragile, objects of beauty and regarded as submissive sex objects. Most women were expected to marry whom their parents arranged for them, take care of their home, have children and remain voiceless. Federico Garcia Lorca illustrates how society viewed women during this time and their struggle to find their voice throughout his plays Blood Wedding, Yerma and The House of Bernarda Alba.
keep the family alive is to give one away – to her broody boss Mrs.
The seventeenth-century play Macbeth, by William Shakespeare, employs blood as a powerful symbol to amplify the tragic nature of the work. Prior to, and immediately following Duncan’s death, blood magnifies the treachery of Macbeth’s murderous act. Throughout the play, blood constantly reminds the audience of the ruthless means the Macbeths implement to gain the crown. In the culmination of the play, blood symbolizes the irreconcilable guilt that will haunt the Macbeths for the duration of their lives. Blood’s ubiquitous symbolism emphasizes the constant guilt felt by the Macbeths in their tragic pursuit of the monarchy.
In the play Macbeth , William Shakespeare uses blood as a symbol throughout the whole story to show the different emotions and themes within the context of the play. It’s a bit ironic for someone whose name means “the son of life” that he has to take so many lives instead of being a father to the people he was trying to rule. The play refers to blood in three key points to create great imagery in this play, guilt, honor, and family/ancestry are some strong points that this imagery is used.
Baz Luhrmann’s Romeo and Juliet is a film that converts Shakespeare’s famous play into a present-day setting. The film transforms the original texts into modern notions, whilst still employing Shakespearean language. Compared to Franco Zeffirelli’s adaptation of Romeo and Juliet, Luhrmann’s picture is easier for a teenage audience to understand and relate to because of his modernisations. Despite the passing of four centuries Shakespeare’s themes of love, hate, violence, family and mortality remain the same regardless of the setting.
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Reckless actions lead to untimely deaths. In Shakespeare’s tragedy “Romeo and Juliet”, both protagonists fight for their hopeless love. Bloodshed and chaos appear inevitable in fair Verona; Romeo and Juliet come from enemy households, the Montegues and the Capulets, who have sworn to defeat one another. The young and handsome Romeo weeps over his unrequited love for Rosaline, until he lays his eyes on Juliet. Strong and independent, Juliet seeks to escape her family’s will to marry her off to Paris, a kinsman of the Prince. Fate ties these adolescents’ lives together binding them to witness the ill-fortunes of Romeo and Juliet’s love. Romeo and Juliet prove themselves woefully impulsive through their words and actions, which ultimately lead them along a series of unfortunate mishaps.
Shakespeare’s play Macbeth has a series of motifs or patterns of imagery such as ambition and greed, unnatural deeds versus human nature, females and evil, and hallucinations, however the one pattern of imagery that the reader can recognize everywhere in Macbeth without the word beginning said is blood.Blood reveals the theme of violence and cruelty in Macbeth.Where there is violence there is blood, where there is dishonesty there is blood and even when there is uncertainty there is blood.In the next paragraphs I will recognize how bloodshed results in victory, guilt and finally tragedy and how it reveals the theme of violence and cruelty.
William Shakespeare has provided some of the most brilliant plays to ever be performed on the stage. He is also the author of numerous sonnets and poems, but he is best known for his plays such as Hamlet, Macbeth, A Midsummer Night's Dream, and Romeo and Juliet. In this essay I would like to discuss the play and movie, "Romeo and Juliet", and also the movie, Shakespeare in Love. The play Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare is set in the fictional city of Verona. Within the city lives two families, the Capulets and the Montegues, who have been feuding for generations.
When Lorca wrote Blood Wedding he carefully thought about the dramatic techniques. Lorca uses off stage music, stage directions, verse, symbolism, scenes and acts and imagery to entertain the audience and to make his play feel poetry.