Word: lorca
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Yerma means barren in Spanish, and the Lincoln Center Repertory Theater means barren in English. The latest fiasco produced by the team of Herbert Blau and Jules Irving is a work of the late Federico Garcia Lorca, a gifted poet but an inept dramatist. For two hours, without intermission, the heroine Yerma (Gloria Foster) yearns publicly and privately to have a baby. The playgoer comes out of this hot bathos convinced that this Spanish , town could certainly use an adoption agency...
...international phenomenon. Yet Connolly leaves out Ibsen and Strindberg, Nietzsche and Rilke, Tolstoy and Chekhov, all of whom surely have "helped shape the contemporary mind" to a far greater degree than Ivy Compton-Burnett or Henri Michaux. What about Marinetti and Cavafy and Karel Capek and Federigo Garcia Lorca and other influential thinkers who did not happen to write in English or French...
...summer day in 1936, during the tumult of the Spanish Civil War, a Fascist squad arrested Federico Garcia Lorca in a friend's house and on the following morning, shot...
...difficult to imagine the man who wrote Billy-Club Puppet facing a firing squad. While Lorca's fame lies chiefly in his tragic plays and his poetry, Billy-Club Puppet is a gay little fantasy, modeled on the puppet theatre, and as innocent as a flower...
...woman. The friendship between Prieto and Lorca was a rare meeting of artistic minds. Says Critic J. Ramirez de Lucas, who is now, with Prieto, preparing an illustrated biography of the poet: "This exhibition brings together the poet who likes to draw, and the painter who likes poetry...