Blood Wedding by Federico Garcia Lorca can best be described as a dark suspicious alley. Set in 1890, in a small rural village in former Czechoslovakia, Blood Wedding tells the story of young, vivacious Ivana, the beautiful daughter the village’s widowed seamstress. Since the death of Ivana’s father, her mother had been over protective and became determined to find her daughter a good husband, someone who could provide her with the financial stability. She wanted her daughter to lead a typical life like the one she and every woman in the village had. Naturally, being the free spirit that she is, Ivana refused to lead her mother’s life and decided to leave the village once and for all to pursue her dreams of becoming a dancer in the Russian ballet. Devastated at the thought of losing her only child, Ivana’s mother resorted to drastic measures, she agrees to force her daughter to marry the cruel undertaker’s son (a boy no one has ever quite seen or heard about), Ivanas mother puts her daughter in more danger than she could have ever imagined. Ivana is forced to live out a cruel and bitter fate. Blood Wedding is a harsh depiction of small town Europe where change and abnormalities are not appreciated and often lead to devastating situations, where everyone possesses a dark secret. It’s a story of failed hope and puts an unforgiving mirror up against life and proves that in the real world, not everyone gets a happy, fairy tale ending.
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