Gosh I thought this was very good.
I think it might have been my first experience of a Lorca play and by gosh this production of Blood Wedding was powerful.
I saw this with Bobbie.
Subsequently Janie and I both became very keen on Lorca and saw a good production of Blood Wedding at the Almeida in 2005.
But returning to this production, the Theatricalia entry for it is here. A very young Helen McCrory starred as the bride and Cyril Nri was the groom.
It seems that we saw a preview, as press night was three days after our sight of it.
Below is Michael Coveney’s review from The Observer:
Coveney On Blood Wedding Sun, Jan 5, 1992 – 41 · The Observer (London, Greater London, England) · Newspapers.com
I think they got their timing wrong having press night on 17 December… a rare Cottesloe opening that missed out on Michael Billington or indeed anyone from the Guardian. But in my view it was the critics who missed out on a very good production.
