Word: andalusian
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...WHERE Shakespeare's characters in Romeo and Juliet are clearly universal, local Andalusian flavor pervades those of Blood Wedding and much of the Spanish specificity and poetry of Garcia Lorca's vision are lost on an American audience watching an English translation...
Some of the fault lies with the American audience itself, which is likely to find the Andalusian character of the play foreign and strange. As a result, certain lines in this tragedy that would evoke sympathy or pathos in a Spanish audience evoke bewilderment, disgust, or even laughter in an American audience...
Flamenco, which includes the singing and guitar music as well as the dance of Andalusian Gypsies, has a language all its own, so simple that it seems to bypass the brain and speak directly to the heart. In the words of the playwright Federico Garcia Lorca, it "knows death, knows blood, knows love." And that awful but powerful knowledge is what this revue seeks to convey. As its title indicates, it presents the real, raw stuff, without nightclub flourish or Jose Greco's acrobatic flamboyance...
...four p.m. one afternoon last week, a crowd of people who were not quite sure how to dress for the occasion bustled into the neo-Andalusian splendor of Manhattan's Guild Theatre. They were going to see a Eugene O'Neill play-an important one. The play, Mourning Becomes Electra, would run continuously with an hour's intermission for dinner, would last five hours...
...Spanish film maker considered one of the cinema's greatest artists; of bile duct disease; in Mexico City. Son of wealthy, religious parents, Buñuel and his friend Salvador Dali transfigured their fantasies in 1929 into one of the first surrealist films, Un Chien Andalou (An Andalusian Dog), a work of bizarre images including a man slashing a woman's eyeball with a razor. In 1930, L'Age d'Or (The Golden Age), with its brutal attacks on Roman Catholicism and bourgeois morality, established the ideological foundation for most...