ABOUT THE PLAY

LORCA is a play that covers many aspects of the life and works of Spain's best known poet and one of the most significant writers of the twentieth century, Federico García Lorca. The Spanish Civil War serves as a political background for LORCA, a new one-man performance which introduces audiences to García Lorca's prose, poetry, theatre, and songs, as well as the people who played significant roles at different stages of his life.  LORCA, set on the day of the poet's arrest, also explores the multifaceted personality of García Lorca who was assassinated in 1936 by anti-Republican rebels, and whose books were destroyed and works banned for almost twenty years in Franco's Spain.