Word: lorca
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...Spanish sequence is an ode to the poet Federico Garcia Lorca, whom Frasconi met in Montevideo in 1933, three years before Lorca was gunned down in the Spanish Civil War. In 1962, after a month in Spain, Frasconi made 16 Picasso-like lithographs titled Oda a Lorca, in which the poet is depicted as a matador, Franco as a hairy-legged bull with tin horns, and Spain as a land of graves over which praying figures whirl by on the backs of monsters, symbolizing "mysticism and dogma in a wild, hysterical...
...since his U.S. -born wife and sons, Pablo, 11, and Miguel, 7, also do woodcuts. The boys often bring home odd pieces of driftwood from their play, and such scavenging sometimes pays off in inscrutable ironies. A battered board that floated in from the Sound ended up in the Lorca series, conveying by its grain the harsh grandeur of the Spanish earth...
...five children, remains a virgin: neither love nor motherhood has touched her heart. As a petty Spanish aristocrat, she is obsessed with the duty to maintain the honor of her House by holding her daughters to eight years of strict mourning for their father. But as often happens in Lorca, the Fates, working through human passions, have decreed tragedy. The House which Bernarda must keep unstained (alba) is marked for ruin...
...Since Lorca's play is written for an all-female cast, we never see Pepe, the handsome suitor who drives the play to its bloody conclusion. He asks the hand of Angustias, the eldest and richest daughter, a shriveled 39-year-old spinster. At the same time, he carries on an affair with Adela, the youngest Alba daughter and the only beauty in the family. Another sister, the hunchback Martirio, is also in love with Pepe. The rest can be left to the imagination of the reader...
Gilian Shallcross admirably brings out the envy and despair of the unappealing Angustias. Pat Collinge as Martirio controls a part that could easily be overplayed, and Anne Crawford and Mary Lambert do a commendable job of defining two other sisters whose characters Lorca left somewhat vague. Saralaine Evans, unfortunately, has some difficulty with the role of Adela. She moves stiffly and occasionally declaims in a monotonous, over-dramatic voice in a way that never lets one forget she's acting...