Word: lorca
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This aesthetic language is key to creating a “theatre under the sand,” which Bortolamedi identifies as a key goal of the production. This idea was coined by playwright Federico Lorca, the author of TEATRO’s last production “Baja La Arena, El Público...
This aesthetic language is key to creating a “theatre under the sand,” which Bortolamedi identifies as a key goal of the production. This idea was coined by playwright Federico Lorca, the author of TEATRO’s last production “Baja La Arena, El Público...
...exhumation of Lorca's remains has hardly been free of controversy. Last year, National Court Judge Baltasar Garzón indicted Franco and his officers retroactively for crimes against humanity and ordered the disinterment of the site to gather evidence. Faced with opposition from other judges who felt he was overstepping his jurisdiction, Garzón was later forced to reverse his decision and recuse himself from the case. The ARMH has also criticized the amount of public money being spent on one highly publicized exhumation. "There are thousands of others buried in mass graves in the same area...
...Lorca's relatives previously objected to the exhumation of his remains. "It's never mattered to us to know the exact location. We just wanted to have the place where he lies protected," says Laura García Lorca. "That's important for the memory of all the victims. Because of who he is, we think of him as a sort of guardian, ensuring the remains of all the others won't be disturbed or forgotten either." Earlier this month, the town of Alfácar granted that wish by declaring the site a cemetery. (Read "At Last, Spain Faces...
...because the family members of two of the men presumably buried with Lorca - anarchist banderillero Francisco Galadí and teacher Dióscoro Galindo - wished to recover their remains, the poet's descendants have decided, at last, to allow the exhumation to happen. But the Lorca family has thus far declined to participate in the laborious DNA testing that geneticist José Lorente and his team will conduct on some of the remains. "If the family doesn't give us tissue samples for us to establish the [family] DNA, those remains will never be identified," Lorente says...