WORLD PREMIERE – THE SHOEMAKER’S WONDERFUL WIFE BY FEDERICO LORCA 2015
World Premiere performance of Lorca’s The Shoemaker’s Wonderful Wife for Peter Brook’s festival 2015 at the V&A.
New translation by Jesus Montero. Directed by Val Doulton.
Below: Val Doulton with the cast for the World Premiere performance of The Shoemaker’s Wonderful Wife by Federico Lorca.
Photo by Simon Annand, from left to right: The translator Jesus Montero, Dermot Taylor, Ciara Murphy, Maria Leon, Anna Tymoshenko, Laura Meaton, Holly Sayer, Director Valerie Doulton, Rosie Sheehy (who played the title role), Richard Hansell (who played the Shoemaker), Libby Rodliffe, Claudio Gonzalez Ravanal, Freddie Meredith, Bernardo Castilla.
Above: Richard Hansell as The Shoemaker.
Above: Rosie Sheehy as the Shoemaker’s wife
Above: Bernardo Castilla as the Author.
Above: Rosie Sheehy as the Shoemaker’s wife
Above: Ciara Murphy as the Boy.
Above: Freddie Meredith as Young Man with Hat.
Anna Tymoshenko as the Red Neighbour.
ABOUT THE PLAY:
A small village is scandalized by the volatile marriage of an old shoemaker and a beautiful and flirtatious young woman. “The Shoemaker’s Wonderful Wife” is a poetic comedy by Federico García Lorca where love triumphs.
VALERIE DOULTON’S LIVE LITERATURE COMPANY is dedicated to communicating British and World literature by fine writers to as wide an audience as possible. It is a Performance company that also stages Combined Arts performances fusing literature, music and dance. In November 2014 the Company performed the David Jones In Parenthesis First World War Commemorative programme with music Val devised, at The Wales Millennium Centre. The Company also performs site-specific performances of great resonance to place, their Jane Austen play in Bath, Bronte play in Hawarth, Byron play on an International tour to Monserrate Palace, Sintra, Portugal, 2 days after the 200th Anniversary of Bryon’s visit there. Work Val directed prior to forming the Company includes, Samuel Beckett, Sylvia Plath, and Poetry of War and Conscience at The National Theatre, Shakespeare at The Garrick Theatre, and in Music Theatre, Stravinsky’s Soldier’s Tale. She is also a writer and teacher. www.theliveliteraturecompany.co.uk @LiveLitCo
The Company thanks, the V and A Theatre and Performance Department, and is delighted to be part of their celebration for Peter Brook. Grateful thanks also to Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, Rada Wardrobe for costume, Rada Workshop for making the window, Corks and Forks, Swain’s Lane, for café table. United Reformed Church, Highgate, for rehearsal space.
La Zapatera Prodigiosa/The Shoemaker’s Wonderful Wife
by Federico García Lorca copyright © Herederos de Federico García Lorca
from La Zapatera Prodigiosa (Joaquín Forradellas/Espasa Calpe, 2003 Edition
with Margarita Xirgu’s apogragh/Guillermo de Torre, Obras
Completas, 1938 Edition). English Translation by Jesús Montero
copyright © Jesús Montero and Herederos de Federico García Lorca.
All rights reserved. For information regarding rights and
permissions of all of Lorca’s works in Spanish or in any other
language, please contact lorca@artslaw.co.uk or William Peter Kosmas, Esq., 8 Franklin Square, London W14 9UU, England.
