Studied this play in Drama and Theatre studies (or was it English? In my school - and my whole educational criteria - it was easy to get the two subjects mixed up). 'Blood Wedding' is a very weird and beautiful Spanish story about a wedding (duh), family feuds, regrets, murder, getting lost in the woods, bloody knives, and how we are all foolhardy when we are young and are unable to learn from our mistakes.
There's a sort of Highwayman, silver-lining vibe to the atmosphere of this tragic, magical realism and human tale. The "charming" swine Leonardo, who whisks the bride away on her wedding night, is the only character who's given a name. Go figure. Oh and the moon talks.
Themes include: Desire; breaking away from the old, safe rituals when it comes to getting married; and karmic deaths of the next generation.
'Blood Wedding' is very much reminiscent of a Greek tragedy. A human ordeal of great misfortune and heartbreak. Back at school I didn't feel as connected to it as I did with 'Women of Troy' - for I thought a lot of the characters were either bland or merely idiots for the sake of the plot - but it is a surrealist fantasy I have not forgotton. It's a bit like an old black-and-white avant garde film in written form.
Maybe my fellow young students have not forgotten it so easily as well, no matter how much they might have hated insipidly studying the classics; taking it apart piece by piece until there is almost nothing of it left to like but an empty skeleton.
Final Score: 3/5
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