Blood Wedding
by Federico Garcia Lorca
directed by Damon Bonetti
November 6 - 23, 2014
A Co-Production with the Mandell Professionals in Residence Project at Drexel University
A lover awaits. A bride flees into the night. A celebration becomes a nightmare. Lorca’s sensual tragedy of passion and revenge
is brought to life in this unique collaboration with Drexel University.
Starring Victoria Rose Bonito, Judith Lightfoot Clarke, Eric Scotolati, and J. Hernandez.
Featuring Laura Allan, Adam Bailey, Virginia Barrie, Susan Blair, Dean Bloomingdale, Alex Cummiskey, Betina Dalope, Nancy Ellis, Corey Fedorowich, Sophie Hirsch, Stephen Lyons, Mari Ma, Georgie Manera, Mort Paterson, Ben Webster, Joy Weir, and Guy West.
is brought to life in this unique collaboration with Drexel University.
Starring Victoria Rose Bonito, Judith Lightfoot Clarke, Eric Scotolati, and J. Hernandez.
Featuring Laura Allan, Adam Bailey, Virginia Barrie, Susan Blair, Dean Bloomingdale, Alex Cummiskey, Betina Dalope, Nancy Ellis, Corey Fedorowich, Sophie Hirsch, Stephen Lyons, Mari Ma, Georgie Manera, Mort Paterson, Ben Webster, Joy Weir, and Guy West.
PRESS AND REVIEWS
"Blood Wedding . . . marks the first time the Philadelphia Artists' Collective is working inside an actual theater space. Damon Bonetti's production, however, eschews any sense of artifice or distance the Mandell Theater's proscenium might provide . . . by thrusting the audience onto a few rows of seats on the stage, it becomes intimate, seating us at the wedding reception, letting us eavesdrop on the gossipy neighbors. Christopher Colucci's original music haunts and charms through each scene, like a film score." - Jim Rutter, Philadelphia Inquirer
"The fine-tuned production is staged by the company's co-artistic director, Damon Bonetti in a partnership between Philadelphia Artists' Collective and the Mandell Professionals-in-Residence Project. The result is well-considered and carefully executed – a rarely performed play whose production makes you wonder why it's not done more frequently." -Howie Shapiro, Newsworks.org
"The evening begins in the lobby with a pre-show of flamenco music and dance, a cultural leitmotiv employed throughout director Damon Bonetti’s imaginative staging. Bonetti has also set some of the dialogue to foreboding and melancholic original music by Christopher Colucci that evokes the play’s nightmarish sensibility and will haunt you long after you’ve left the building." -Deb Miller, Phindie.com
"The fine-tuned production is staged by the company's co-artistic director, Damon Bonetti in a partnership between Philadelphia Artists' Collective and the Mandell Professionals-in-Residence Project. The result is well-considered and carefully executed – a rarely performed play whose production makes you wonder why it's not done more frequently." -Howie Shapiro, Newsworks.org
"The evening begins in the lobby with a pre-show of flamenco music and dance, a cultural leitmotiv employed throughout director Damon Bonetti’s imaginative staging. Bonetti has also set some of the dialogue to foreboding and melancholic original music by Christopher Colucci that evokes the play’s nightmarish sensibility and will haunt you long after you’ve left the building." -Deb Miller, Phindie.com
IMAGE GALLERY
All photos are credit Kate Raines and PLATE 3 Photography.
