Role - Set Designer

Venue - Theatre-on-the-Hill, Amersham (Speculative)

For an optional unit as part of my college course, I chose to create a hypothetical design for a production of "Blood Wedding" by Federico García Lorca. 

My design was born out of research I did into Lorca's personal relationship with the surrealist artist Salvador Dalí and the areas of Spain he knew well. They were known to be very close, with rumours of romance between them. 

Around 1930, when Lorca wrote the play, he lead a group called La Barraca which toured theatre around rural Spain. I wanted my design to incorporate the environment he wrote it in, as well as the areas he grew up in, around the province of Granada.

I was also interested in the way that certain themes of the play could reflect his feelings towards Salvador Dalí, so when I looked at the way Dalí's artwork often featured a barren desert landscape with shapes which give a sense of unease, the idea of setting the play almost within one of these paintings came into my mind. 

When considering the shapes I wanted to feature in my design, I focused a lot on the use of light and shadow to assist in setting the mood for the production. I wanted shapes that would give clear and defined shadows.