The poetic land of Lorca
We like to hear about theater companies with similar goals and visions to ours. One such company is Greasy Joan and Co. of that great theater town, Chicago. They re-imagine classic plays, promote new adaptations and translations, and seek for visually compelling elements. (They’ve been around longer than Handcart, but I promise we did not steal our mission statement from them.)
In the last year or two we’ve had some serious internal discussions about putting on a couple of Spanish plays. Lorca, of course, was one of the playwrights in discussion. He comes naturally to mind when one mentions Spanish plays. And when I write of Lorca, I think of his Granada, and a wonderful recital of songs set to Lorca texts I stumbled across when I visited Andalucía in 1998.
Anyway, the Sun-Times tells us Greasy Joan is staging a new adaptation of Lorca’s The House of Bernarda Alba. I wish I were there to see it. Go Greasy Joan!
Posted by Kevin Ashworth at September 23, 2005 12:29 PM
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