Blood Wedding: A Trans Fantasia (In Development)

Created by Angelica Schwartz, Anais West, and Stephanie Wong. A happy/accidents production in development. In association with Neworld Theatre.

In a 1960s motel, a queer and trans theatre troupe enacts a surreal re-telling of Federico García Lorca’s Blood Wedding. Combining original text and music with Lorca’s poetry, plays, and his unfinished avant-guard script, El público, Blood Wedding is a meta-theatrical love letter to a queer ancestor. It embraces nostalgia, fantasy and pleasure, imagining what Lorca’s work could have been if he had not been confined by the repressive sexual and gender norms of 1930s Spanish society.

Residency Creative Team:

Adapted from Federico García Lorca
Written by Anais West
Directed by Angelica Schwartz
Dramaturged by Stephanie Wong
Live music by Sally Zori & Kelsey Kanatan Wavey
Production design by Andie Lloyd

Stage Managed by Alexa Fraser

Tech by Brianna Bernard.

Workshop performances by Kelsey Kanatan Wavey, Sally Zori, Pedro Augusto Meza, Emily Jane King, Camille Legg, and Rae Takei.

Showcases:

- Progress Lab Script Workshop - March 2024

- What Lab's It's Not A Stage Residency - October 2023

- Deer Lake Staged Reading - June 2023, Shadbolt Centre for the Arts

With generous support from the Canada Council for the Arts, the National Theatre School of Canada, Deer Lake AiR, What Lab, and Tara Cheyenne Performance.