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University of Salford to host Spanish language theatre piece by Théâtre Sans Frontières and North
Tuesday, 18 October 2011
The University of Salford is to host an exciting Spanish Language Theatre piece, Lorca: Amor en el Jardín (Love in the Garden), presented by Théâtre Sans Frontières and Northern Stage.
Date: 7 November 2011
Time: 7:30
Venue: University of Salford, Robert Powell Theatre, Allerton Building, Frederick Road Campus, Salford, M6 6PU
Admission: £10 & £8 (concessions). For group bookings there is one free ticket for every ten purchased.
Concession = schools, colleges, universities, those on state benefits, over 60s, people under the age of 18, full time students and the disabled.
Advance booking is recommended. For online bookings go to the University of Salford's online shop click here.
For more information email: j.iddon@salford.ac.uk or telephone: 0161 295 4436
Immerse your students in this luscious Spanish language performance, poetry and music with Spain’s greatest writer of the 20th century, Federico García Lorca In Lorca’s ‘garden of love’, the duendes (sprites) ask, who exactly is Lorca? Evoking moments of his life, through Lorca’s own words and music, the duendes recall his youth, passions, struggle for acceptance and political commitment. They remember too that Lorca had written the tragicomic play El Amor de Don Perlimplín y Belisa en su Jardin in that very same garden.
Mischievously, the duendes act out the play. The wealthy Don Perlimplín just wants to spend his days quietly reading books, but his housekeeper thinks it’s high time he found himself a wife. After all, she’s not going to be around forever to look after him in his old age. Reluctantly, he agrees to marry the gorgeous and much younger Belisa, but what has he let himself in for? And who is the mysterious red-caped figure that keeps sending his wife love letters?
In celebration of the 75th anniversary of Lorca’s death, TSF brings its unparalleled visual and physical style to this sensuous and original adaptation. With evocative live music, larger-than-life characters and Lorca’s poetry, you’ll be seduced by this surreal tale of deceit, disguise and obsession.
¡Anda jaleo, jaleo!