For this assignment, I have been given the task of directing a scene from Lorca's, Blood Wedding.

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Sohil Hirani

Blood Wedding – My vision

For this assignment, I have been given the task of directing a scene from Lorca’s, Blood Wedding.

        I have decided to choose Act 3, Scene 1, as it gives a good insight into the writer’s character and what he intended to portray in this play. In particular it focuses on the main themes of love and death that he has explored throughout in this play and gives us a deeper understanding of the characters in it.

This scene is a very important part of the play because it enables us, that is the audience, to get a greater depth of the feelings and thoughts of the main individual characters and the writer himself. Lorca’s use of imagery and dialogue in this scene often refers to his own person feelings of rejection from society because of his sexual preference. For example in this scene one of The Woodcutters says, ‘The world’s big. Everyone can live in it.’ this has been denoted as being Lorca’s longing for a society far more tolerant than that in which he lived and in which his own homosexuality, no less than the illicit passion of couples like the Bride and Leonardo, will be more readily accepted.

Lorca’s use of imagery and dialogue also helps enhance the characters, for example, the character of Moon is portrayed to us like a mysterious force of fate and destiny. Lorca has personified the moon to be like a man frozen with cold to make us feel sympathy for it, however, he also implies that the slivery light of the moon is like the gleam of a knife, as the character of the Moon says, ‘The moon places a knife’, suggesting the evil in it.

I have decided to base this scene in the wild depths of a jungle in central India, this I feel will help capture the same gloomy atmosphere and mood that Lorca has done, as he has chosen to set his scene in a forest. I will also be able to approach the scene from a different perspective without having to make any dramatic changes, which would disturb the story of the play in any way. For example, I have decided to use the character of the Sun rather than the Moon but have represented it in a similar way as not to change the personality of the character. I have also decided to keep the theme of blood and death similar to that of Lorca as they have been used effectively in this scene and will also work with the scene that I have chosen to direct.

My vision of this scene although seen in a different setting and slightly different perspective still touches on Lorca’s original scene. The changes I have made in characters, choice of stage, sets, props, lighting and sound will be discussed in more detail throughout my assignment. In my discussion of these I will be making comparisons to the original scene and how I have changed it, I will also be using quotations to help illustrate these changes and my own vision of them.

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I will begin my discussion on my own characters by first introducing the original characters that are in this scene. The first sets of characters that we come across are the three Woodcutters, these characters are supposed to signify the Greek chorus. The number three is very significant in Greek tragic drama, the chorus in Greek plays always appear in threes and in this scene the three Woodcutters are meant to be normal people doing their normal work, however, they are aware of the hunt of the two lovers. I believe they act as a narrator in this scene ...

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