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OLIVES AND BLOOD
A Play by Michael Bradford
October 2-12, 2014
Box Office: 860-486-2113 or http://www.crt.uconn.edu/
Nafe Katter Theatre
It is said in Spain that the dead are more alive than the day they were born. So it is for the presumed murderer of Federico Garcia Lorca, Juan Luis Trescante Medina. 60 years after Lorca’s unsolved death, the aging fascist, Trescante, fights to hold onto the myth of an execution that has defined his life but failed to silence the great poet. In Spain, sixty years is little more than a breath, and a reckoning is all but inevitable. Olives and Blood investigates the repression of the artist in times of political upheaval and the power of a poetic voice that resonates beyond the confines of the flesh. Bradford examines how an artist’s life may end, but their work continues on. Riveting and thought provoking, this plunge into the resonance of art is directed by Gary M. English.
Photography by Cindy Recinos and Clara Huebenthal
Editing by Cindy Recinos
OLIVES AND BLOOD
A Play by Michael Bradford
October 2-12, 2014
Box Office: 860-486-2113 or http://www.crt.uconn.edu/
Nafe Katter Theatre
It is said in Spain that the dead are more alive than the day they were born. So it is for the presumed murderer of Federico Garcia Lorca, Juan Luis Trescante Medina. 60 years after Lorca’s unsolved death, the aging fascist, Trescante, fights to hold onto the myth of an execution that has defined his life but failed to silence the great poet. In Spain, sixty years is little more than a breath, and a reckoning is all but inevitable. Olives and Blood investigates the repression of the artist in times of political upheaval and the power of a poetic voice that resonates beyond the confines of the flesh. Bradford examines how an artist’s life may end, but their work continues on. Riveting and thought provoking, this plunge into the resonance of art is directed by Gary M. English.
Photography by Cindy Recinos and Clara Huebenthal
Editing by Cindy Recinos
