Blood Wedding
Role: Director
Written by Federico García Lorca
In a new version by Tanya Ronder
Produced by The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland
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Played without an interval, Agius’s production sees his cast of twelve bring a sense of largesse to its 100-minute duration. This is soundtracked by bursts of contemporary pop music, from Shakira to a Spanish language Eurovision style reboot of the Human League’s hit, Don’t You Want Me. This brings home some of the show’s audacious pop video visual stylings in a slow burning affair that makes for a piece of everyday mythology that simmers its way to its deadly conclusion
- The Herald
A bride promised. A blood vow broken. The vengeance of a village unleashed. Passions and traditions collide with unstoppable consequences as the mysteries of love and hate are explored against the backdrop of a community gearing up to unleash these elemental forces upon itself. What’s done cannot be undone.
Written in the summer of 1932, Lorca’s original Blood Wedding foreshadows the violence that would soon both tear his beloved country apart, and lead to his own tragic end. This production was performed by final-year students from the BA Acting cohort.
Cast
Vera Helen Wyss
Saffron Rae
Amy Beth Waterston
Eve Priestley
Rhia Louisa
Janey Fulton
Bilal Pashayev
Jude Bain
Rosie Mackay
Teddy Robertson
Lewis Fleming
Farrah Abbassy
Crew
Director – André Agius
Set and Costume Design – Chantal Jarem
Sound Design – Cormac Cameron-Finn
Lighting Design – Dominic de Mountfalcon
Composer – Jack Gardner
Fight Director – Raymond Short
Movement Directors – Lucien Lindsay-MacDougall, Benedicte Seierup
Intimacy Co-ordinator – Sharon Mackay
Production Manager Anne Lovett
Stage Manager – Grant Haddow
Deputy Stage Manager – Josh Hanover
Assistant Stage Managers – Sal Quinlan, Connor Boyd
Production Electricians – Cameron McGrath, Maxi Heddle
Deputy Production Electrician – Ross Mcilwaine
Lighting Programmer – Maxi Heddle
Lighting Technician – Milla Rais Tamosiunas
Production Sound Engineer and Sound Operator – Sean Jarvie
Stage Supervisor – Elizabeth Booth
Deputy Stage Supervisors – Mary-Jane McNally, Alexander Bishop
Costumes Supervisor – Kirstin Rodger
Costume Assistants – Katherine Badenoch, Beth Brown, Roisin Robinson
Senior Prop Maker – Lachlann Donald
Lead Prop Makers – Nicole Green, Zoe Roy
Prop Makers – Karina Aitken, Francesca O’Connor, Paul Atkinson, Isobella Strange, Alathea Osborn, Melissa Skye Henfrey Masters, Andrew Scott Macfarlane, Jake Keenan
Head Scenic Artist – Megumi McKillop
Scenic Artist Lisa – Jane Masters
Set Construction – Matt Doolan
Stage Carpenters – Ruben San Roman, George Grahamslaw, Hope Gibson, Cameron Donaldson