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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...
Enter the traveling Shakespearean theater company, stage left, complete with a Romeo techy named Riley (Eric Roberts). Cassie joins acting classes to escape her monotonous life, but pretty soon she's performing as Juliet offstage as much as on. If she can just cut away her town ties, and trust her slightly mad Romeo, Cassie may find happiness in L.A. But of course that's easier said than done...
Romeo and Juliet...
...Juliet of Spirits today...