Monday, February 18, 2008

Lorca quotes.

Hey people! I thought it will be interesting for all of you to read some Lorca quotes. I took them from the introduction of the spanish edition of Blood Wedding that Alberto and I have.

Here you are!


"Theatre is poetry that rises from the book ..."

“There are new ways to give to theatre. Everything’s in daring to walk on them”

“-Do you refuse bourgeois audience?
-That one that delights itself with scenes in which the protagonist ties his tie whistling and suddenly calls his servant:… “Listen, Pepe, bring me…” That’s not theatre, nor is nothing. People from pits and boxes do the same every single day and therefore are pleased to see it. I would pull out the pits and boxes from theatres and would bring down the gods. In the theatre you have to let enter the espadrille audience. “¿Are you wearing, madam, a beautiful silk dress? Well then, go out!” The audience with esparto t-shirt, in front of Hamlet, in front of Aeschylus’s works, in front of all what is grand. The bourgeois is being the end of the dramatic in Spanish theatre.”

“Above all, it is necessary to understand why the theatre is in decadence. Theatre, in order to acquire again his strength, has to go back to common people, from who it has moved away. Theatre is, as well, a matter of poets. Without tragic sense there’s no theatre, and tragic sense is absent from today’s theatre. Common people know a lot about that.”

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