Blood Wedding by Federico Garcia Lorca is a puissant and composed Zeus holding a lightning bolt of tension in his hands. The plot is built upon the intensity of the interaction between the father of the bride and the mother of the groom who are in the midst of discussing the arrangement of their children's marriage, both conceited with familial pride. The intensity of the power each character commands on stage, as well as the supposed essence of the theme deliberated is meant to impact the audience with further queries regarding the sincerity of these characters’ feelings towards the theme of arranged marriages, considering they are much more passionate in boasting about their child’s qualities rather than concerning their fates.
The play itself is set back in the 1890s. Reminisce the nostalgic time, where ladies in puffy gowns and gentlemen in bowler hats were flamboyant, indulged lavishness of gold encrusted objects and other simple luxuries, never holding back in fulfilling their pretentious wants and needs nor flaunting their grandiose lifestyle.This displays the stereotypical personality of the characters. Pompous, egoistic and British. The stage will be designed according to -if space not held in a real heritage, countryside mansion's- 1890s living room, consisting of a fireplace, a giant gold-framed portrait of a deceased, honorable family member above it, a gold and crystal chandelier, a couch and a chair for the protagonists to sit on, a coffee table and other little swanky ornaments. However, despite the hauteur of the set, the other elements of the play should be extremely simple, because the element the audience should be focused on is the characters -their stories and their feelings.
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