A bride promised. A blood vow broken. The vengeance of a village released.

I want you green. Green wind, green branches. Boat on the ocean. Horse on the mountain.

Written in the summer of 1932 with the Spanish civil war looming, Lorca's anarchic meditation on the fate of the individual versus society is a prophetic foreshadowing of the violence that would soon tear his beloved country apart and lead to his own tragic end.

The mysteries of love and hate are explored against the backdrop of a community gearing up to unleash these elemental forces upon itself, with unstoppable consequences.

What is done cannot be undone.

Marina Carr's version of Federico Garcia Lorca's Blood Wedding
premiered at the Young Vic, London, in September 2019.

About the Author
Federico Garcia Lorca (1898 - 1936), poet and dramatist was one the greatest Spanish writers of the twentieth-century. He was killed by Nationalist partisans at the age of thirty-eight at the beginning of the Spanish Civil War. Marina Carr was brought up in County Offaly. A graduate of University College Dublin, she has written extensively for the theatre. She has taught at Villanova, Princeton, and is currently Associate Professor in the School of English, Dublin City University. Awards include the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, the Macaulay Fellowship, the E. M. Forster Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the Windham Campbell Prize. She lives in Dublin with her husband and four children.


Book Information
ISBN 9780571360147
Author Federico Garcia Lorca
Format Paperback
Page Count 80
Imprint Faber & Faber
Publisher Faber & Faber
Weight(grams) 95g
Dimensions(mm) 198mm * 126mm * 7mm