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Blood Wedding
04 June 2025 to 07 June 2025
About Blood Wedding
Presented by University of Oxford student company Full Moon Theatre
Written by Federico García Lorca
In a new translation by Emma Nihill Alcorta
A blade sharpened. A bride wedded. A blood-feud unleashed.
Under the burning Andalusian sun, a woman is set to marry a man she does not love. Tables are laid, vows are spoken, and the woman condemns herself to a traditional life walled inside a house of stone. But another man has been riding to her window in the dead of night, calling her name on the wind, and she begins to wonder if the burden of tradition might be too heavy to bear. If passion drove you mad, would you risk it all?
Written in the summer of 1932, Lorca’s acclaimed rural tragedy is a story of arid land and tough people, where societal expectations are rigidly defined and hidden yearnings simmer under the surface of convention. From the pen of internationally revered Spanish playwright Federico García Lorca, Blood Wedding is a masterpiece of exquisite poetry and raw human longing.
Featuring a live, original score and choreography inspired by Flamenco, University of Oxford student company Full Moon Theatre presents a razor-sharp adaptation of a Spanish masterpiece that demands to be staged again and again.
Tickets
Please see important booking information below.
Booking information
Ticket prices:
From £14.00
Dates & times:
Wednesday 04 to Saturday 07 June 2025
Wednesday at 7.30pm, Friday at 8.00pm, Thursday and Saturday at 2.30pm and 7.30pm
Age guidance:
14+
Warning:
This show contains violence and strong references to violence and injury, blood, ableist and misogynistic language, and references to death.
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