Blood Wedding – The Drama Studio, Sheffield
The Company brought their production of Federico Garcia Lorca’s Spanish tragedy ‘Blood Wedding’ to Sheffield this week, and with it plenty of endeavour. How does this horrorful, mysterious tale of lovers torn astray weigh up today?
It ought to be said that many (if not all) of the performers on stage demonstrated strong performative capability. They were confident, expressive, at times dynamic and at times deeply committed. Equally Mia Stephenson and Bella Rodgers’ costumes are great, and John Ansari’s fight co-ordination is strong. However, unfortunately I feel this production faced some challenges that proved difficult to overcome.
Ed Bancroft and Heather Ellis’ direction has its moments. Specifically, it has a big moment in the second act – in which the sinister, abstract underwor...