Spanish literature makes its entrance at the Teatro Tram in Naples: from 17 to 27 February, the play “Blood Wedding”, a theatrical drama written by Federico Garcia Lorca, adapted and directed by Gianmarco Cesario, a show that closes the second cycle of the season at the theatre in via Port'Alba.
A raw story, with a very strong directorial choice, that of having men also play the female roles: Pietro Juliano, Leonardo Di Costanzo and Guido Di Geronimo, who are on stage with Germana Di Marino and the dancers Adriana Napolitano and Ilaria Leone.
Unnamed characters whose story begins from a terrible past that moves towards an event that, by its nature, should be happy: the future marriage of a young man whose mother has seen her husband and other son die in a feud.
However, the wedding does not seem to be starting under the best auspices: the rumours circulating about the bride-to-be's reputation are not flattering and this cannot help but worry the Mother.
Federico Garcia Lorca left us on August 19, 1936, just over 85 years ago, at the hands of Franco's guards. His dream of freedom was shattered under the axe of a dictator, a written destiny, like the one that the protagonists of "Bodas de Sangre", the first chapter of his trilogy on love, do not escape.
Behind an apparent story of betrayal and crime of honor, in fact, he tells the tragedy of the impossibility of Spanish society to escape from rules that limited living freely.
The sexist and retrograde jokes of the Mother character, in which a woman is considered smart if she is able to “make bread and sew her own skirts” while remaining locked in the house, building “a wall in front of” herself, bring us back to the restrictive obligations typical of a dictatorship.
Article published on 14 February 2022 - 16:46
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