About the show
Two Deaf teenagers decide to stay behind in their school’s drama classroom while the rest of their group attends an inaccessible performance. There, among dusty trunks and desks, they begin to improvise with texts by Lorca. What starts as a game soon becomes a dreamlike journey, where the classroom transforms and poetry comes to life: the board on the wall reveals illustrations by the poet, objects metamorphose, and the boundaries between reality and fiction begin to blur.
Through the symbolic universe of Blood Wedding, the protagonists explore desire, loss and the tragedy of a youth cut short: not only the death of the body, but also of dreams, when growing up without role models or spaces to imagine a future.
Will they be able to transcend the invisible barriers they’ve internalised?
This is not just a tribute to Lorca. It is also a declaration of desire: that of two young people who imagine a different, possible place through art — one where their language and their gaze are central, not marginal. A visual, poetic, bilingual performance with vibrant live music, it celebrates the transformative power of theatre and the right to dream — out loud, or in sign language.
Director’s note
Directing Grito, Boda y Sangre is, for me, an act of defiance, remembrance and freedom. Defiance in reclaiming a language—sign language—that is still largely absent from our stages, as though access to theatre were not a right for all. Remembrance, because Lorca stands for those who have been historically silenced. And freedom, because this version seeks to celebrate difference as a creative force.
The Deaf community has been kept at a distance from the theatre for far too long. Existing productions have rarely been conceived from within their culture, or attuned to their rhythm and way of seeing and feeling the world. Grito, Boda y Sangre was created to change that. This staging is not a secondary translation, but a production conceived in sign language from the outset. And that changes everything — the energy, the visual language, the way bodies tell the story.
This production offers a sensory experience that weaves together bilingual theatre, signed dance, masks, puppetry and visual vernacular. A piece where hearing and Deaf audiences can share the same emotion through different languages — but on equal terms.
It is also a journey into a shared wound: the death of youth. Not only the physical death, but the death of dreams when you grow up without role models, believing that possible futures are not meant for you. That silent, everyday injustice is the true backdrop of this tragedy.
Grito, Boda y Sangre does not merely offer a new way of looking at Lorca. It is also an invitation to see theatre—and the world—from a different place.
Ángela Ibáñez Castaño
