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...GARCIA Lorca's Blood Wedding, easily the most famous play by the most famous 20th century Spanish writer, has by now surely earned a place in the Spanish theatrical canon analogous to that of Romeo and Juliet in the English cannon. Like Romeo and Juliet, Garcia Lorca's version of the classic theme of star-crossed lovers and feuding families is a poetic tragedy, rich in symbolic imagery and comic in scope...
...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...
...most of the fault lies in the translation. Director Marya Cohn adapted an already existing translation herself, which means that the blame for the loss of Garcia Lorca's poetic diction and for the unusual interpretation of certain characters is hers. Poetry, even free verse such as Garcia Lorca's galloping, assonant verse. If the actors delivery of this awkward English version of Garcia Lorca's poetry falls flat at times, they may be excused...
...What Garcia Lorca's puppets of fate lack in characterization and human complexity, they make up for intensity of emotion. All the actors give appropriately intense performances, but Clark's Mother, Brody's Wife and Gasser's Bride deserve special mention. Clark and Brody offer true anguish at the impending loss of their men, and Gasser convinces that she is torn between her fiance and the man fate decrees...
...show is also excellent technically, as one would expect from a Mainstage production. Effective use is made of eerie lights, smoke, gauzy curtains, vivid sets, and sound effects. The sets and costumes usually don't match Garcia Lorca's explicit instructions, though and their symbolic meanings are lost...