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“Buwan,” a Filipino adaptation of Blood Wedding (Spanish: Bodas de sangre), a tragedy by Spanish dramatist Federico García Lorca will be staged at the Erehwon Center for the Arts on February 26 and 26, 2023. Shows will be at 2pm, 4pm,6 pm and 8pm.
Blood Wedding was written in 1932 was first performed at Teatro Beatriz in Madrid in March 1933, then later that year in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Theatre critics often group Blood Wedding with Garcia Lorca’s Yerma and The House of Bernarda Alba as the “rural trilogy”. The script is based on Lorca’s creation of drama and conflict, inspired by a true story of a fatal feud between two families in the Almeria province. The lead characters of Blood Wedding are ordinary women confronting their own passionate natures and rebelling against the constraints of society.
The play is a tragedy about a young woman and two men fighting for her love. The Bride is in love with Leonardo, but their families do not get along, so Leonardo marries another woman. The Bride is also arranged to be married to another man, whom she doesn’t love, but will marry to appease her family’s wishes. Although Leonardo is married already, he confesses to the Bride that he is still in love with her. At first, she tells him to be silent, but then confesses that she still loves him, too. Despite these revelations, she goes on with her marriage to the other man, but on the night of her wedding reception, she elopes with Leonardo. When their disappearance is revealed, the Mother commands that everybody search for them. In the forest that the Bride and Leonardo have fled into, the play takes a surrealistic turn. The Moon and Death work together to encourage the Bridegroom and Leonardo to kill one another. At the end of the play, the Bride returns to the church hoping the Bridegroom’s Mother will kill her. Is she killed in the end, or does she live but be continuously haunted by the tragedy she has caused?
Filipino translation of the play is by Anthony Dusaban. Journey through the moral complexities of individual actions in #BUWAN. For tickets visit Ticket2Me https://ticket2me.net/e/36855.