Barney Norris’ dark comedy brings Lorca’s passionate 1932 Spanish classic Blood Wedding blazing into 2025 England with a limited run at London’s Omnibus Theatre.
‘Why should I pretend I’m feeling happy if I’m not?’
Tension runs high in a village on the edge of Salisbury Plain as the happy anticipation of a wedding suddenly turns ominous.
Georgie, 22 and the bride-to-be, is torn between her fiancé Rob and Lee, her ex. The seeds of disaster are sown.
Inspired by Frederico Garcia Lorca’s play, Barney Norris brings us bang up-to-date with the dreams and fears of any young couple today. Do we ever dare to do what is in our hearts, do ‘one pure thing’?
Tricia Thorns’ award-winning Two’s Company is best known for sparkling rediscoveries of forgotten classics – A Day by the Sea, Bodies, The Cutting of the Cloth at Southwark Playhouse, Don’t Destroy Me at the Arcola, London Wall at the Finborough.
Multi-award-winning Barney Norris’ other plays include Visitors and Eventide (Arcola), Nightfall (Bridge Theatre) and Second Best (Riverside). He is also the author of novels, including Five Rivers Met On A Wooded Plain and Undercurrent.
The Blood Wedding cast includes Alix Dunmore, David Fielder, Esme Lonsdale, Kiefer Moriarty, Christopher Neenan and Nell Williams.
Following the performance at 7.30pm on Tuesday 6 May 2025, I’ll talk to Blood Wedding cast and creatives about the process of updating a classic from the canon. Any questions? Join us!