Federico García Lorca

Select Key Productions

Federico García Lorca deals with an expansive range of productions of the dramatist's plays. This includes stagings realized for theatres in the UK, US and Spain as well as adaptations for television, opera, dance and film.

Productions covered include the premieres of Lorca's work in Spain as with:

Bodas de sangre (Blood Wedding) presented by Josefina Díaz de Artigas and Manuel Collado's company at Madrid's Beatriz theatre on 8 March 1933.

Yerma directed by Cipriano Rivas Cherif, presented by Margarita Xirgu's company at Madrid's Español theatre on 29 December 1934.

Doña Rosita la soltera (Doña Rosita the Spinster) directed by Cipriano Rivas Cherif, presented by Margarita Xirgu's company at Barcelona's Principal Palace theatre on 12 December 1935.

Así que pasen cinco años (When Five Years Pass) directed by Miguel Narros at Madrid's Eslava theatre on 19 September 1978.

Comedia sin título (Play Without a Title) directed by Lluís Pasqual, presented by the Centro Dramítico Nacional at Madrid's María Guerrero theatre on 23 June 1989.

Productions of plays premiered outside Spain as with:

La casa de Bernarda Alba (The House of Bernarda Alba) presented by Margarita Xirgu at Buenos Aires' Avenida theatre on 8 March 1945.

El público (The Public) directed by Lluís Pasqual, presented by the Centro Dramítico Nacional at Milan's Piccolo theatre on 12 December 1986.

Dance theatre adaptations available on film as with:

Carlos Saura's Bodas de sangre (Blood Wedding) (Spain, 1981)

Sara Baras' and Lluís Pasqual's Mariana Pineda (Spain, 2003)

Film versions as with:

Pilar Tívora's Yerma with Aitana Sínchez-Gijón in the title role (Spain, 1999)

Mario Camus's La casa de Bernarda Alba (The House of Bernarda Alba) (Spain, 1987)

Musical and operatic readings as with:

Michael John LaChiusa's The House of Bernarda Alba presented at New York's Lincoln Center in 2005.

Simon Holt's The Nightingale's to Blame, based on El amor de don Perlimplín con Belisa en su jardín (The Love of Don Perlimplín with Belisa in his Garden), presented by Opera North in 1998.

High profile productions of the plays in translation presented in the UK and US as with:

The House of Bernarda Alba directed by Emily Mann at the McCarter Theater Princeton in 1997.

The House of Bernarda Alba directed by Nuria Espert at the Lyric Hammersmith, London in 1986.

Blood Wedding directed by Rufus Norris at the Almeida theatre, London in 2005.

The House of Bernarda Alba directed by Howard Davies for the National Theatre, London in 2005.

The Public directed by Ultz at the Theatre Royal Stratford East, London in 1988.

When Five Years Pass directed by Michael John Garces for INTAR, New York in 1998.

Productions that have radically shifted the performative associations of the plays as with:

Yerma directed by Víctor García for the Nuria Espert company in 1971.

Doña Rosita la soltera (Doña Rosita the Spinster) directed by Jorge Lavelli with Nuria Espert in the title role in 1981.

La casa de Bernarda Alba (The House of Bernarda Alba) directed by Calixto Bieito for the Centro Dramítico Nacional, Madrid in 1998.