Blood Wedding (play) - Adaptations

Adaptations

• The play was adapted as a Spanish film in 1938, with Margarita Xirgu repeating her stage role.

• BBC Television made their earliest known adaption of the play in 1959.

• In 1964 a generally well-regarded operatic version, Vérnász, with a score by Hungarian composer Sandor Szokolay, was first produced in Budapest. It has been performed since. Wolfgang Fortner wrote a German opera based on the play; his work was called Die Bluthochzeit.

• In 1981, Spanish film director Carlos Saura directed a dance film inspired by the play (also entitled Blood Wedding).

• In 1986, the BBC broadcasted a radio version of the play. It starred Anna Massey, Juliet Stevenson and Alan Rickman, among others.

• A 2006 Haitian operatic adaptation of the play, titled Le Maryaj Lenglensou, was produced by Dutch filmmaker Hans Fels, with a score by Haitian composer Iphares Blain. A documentary on the production by Fels premiered at the 2007 Netherlands Film Festival.