Poet, painter, musician, theatre director and Spain's most celebrated dramatist, Federico Garcia Lorca was murdered by Nationalist sympathisers at the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War. Many of his plays focus on peasant life and the forces of nature, combining innovative dramatic technique with Spanish popular tradition.<BR>Blood Wedding is set in a village community in Lorca's Andalusia, and tells the story of a couple drawn irresistibly together in the face of an arranged marriage. Written when Lorca was at the height of his powers, it is the play on which his international reputation was founded.