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Tag: Blood Wedding

Women of the Night, Chapter 1: Lorca’s “Rural Trilogy”

3rd September 202025th November 2020  Toni Roberts

Sympathising with the marginalised, Lorca wrote spirited plays featuring aspirational but oppressed women who sought freedom, pleasure and solace under the cover of night. Here, in the first essay of her mini series, Toni Roberts explores Lorca’s rural trilogy, reflecting on his heroines’ relationship to the night – and day.

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Posted in Arts, Books, TheatreTagged: Abortion, Billie Piper, Blood Wedding, Duende, Federico Garcia Lorca, Flamenco, Johan Persson, La Barraca, Lorca, Marc Brenner, National Theatre, Night / Shift, Rural trilogy, Southern Spain, Spain, The House of Bernarda Alba, Theatre, Toni Roberts, Women of the Night, Yerma, Young Vic
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