BLOOD WEDDING

BY BARNEY NORRIS, AFTER LORCA
PRESENTED BY TWO’S COMPANY AND KARL SYDOW
IN ASSOCIATION WITH TILLY FILMS
'Why should I pretend I’m feeling happy if I’m not?’

Barney Norris’s dark comedy brings Lorca’s passionate Spanish classic blazing into 2025 England.

Tension runs high in a village on the edge of Salisbury Plain as the happy anticipation of a wedding suddenly turns ominous.

Georgie, 22 and the bride-to-be, is torn between her fiancé Rob and Lee, her ex. The seeds of disaster are sown.

Inspired by Frederico Garcia Lorca’s play, Barney Norris brings us bang up-to-date with the dreams and fears of any young couple today.

Do we ever dare to do what is in our hearts, do ‘one pure thing’?

Tricia Thorns’s award-winning Two’s Company is best known for sparkling rediscoveries of forgotten classics – A Day by the Sea, Bodies, The Cutting of the Cloth at Southwark Playhouse, Don’t Destroy Me at the Arcola, London Wall at the Finborough.

Multi-award-winning Barney Norris’s other plays include Visitors and Eventide, (Arcola), Nightfall (Bridge Theatre) and Second Best (Riverside). He is also the author of novels, including Five Rivers Met On A Wooded Plain and Undercurrent.

Post-Show Q&A with Terri Paddock – Tuesday 6th May, free to all ticket-holders


Blood Wedding is generously supported by:

The Boris Karloff Charitable Foundation

The John S Cohen Foundation

The Unity Theatre Trust

Royal Victoria Hall Foundation

30 APR – 24 MAY
7:30 PM (TUES-SAT), 2:30PM (SAT), 4PM (SUN)
£20 STANDARD, £18 CONCESSION, £15 PREVIEW

BLOOD WEDDING

BY BARNEY NORRIS, AFTER LORCA
PRESENTED BY TWO’S COMPANY AND KARL SYDOW
IN ASSOCIATION WITH TILLY FILMS
'Why should I pretend I’m feeling happy if I’m not?’

Barney Norris’s dark comedy brings Lorca’s passionate Spanish classic blazing into 2025 England.

Tension runs high in a village on the edge of Salisbury Plain as the happy anticipation of a wedding suddenly turns ominous.

Georgie, 22 and the bride-to-be, is torn between her fiancé Rob and Lee, her ex. The seeds of disaster are sown.

Inspired by Frederico Garcia Lorca’s play, Barney Norris brings us bang up-to-date with the dreams and fears of any young couple today.

Do we ever dare to do what is in our hearts, do ‘one pure thing’?

Tricia Thorns’s award-winning Two’s Company is best known for sparkling rediscoveries of forgotten classics – A Day by the Sea, Bodies, The Cutting of the Cloth at Southwark Playhouse, Don’t Destroy Me at the Arcola, London Wall at the Finborough.

Multi-award-winning Barney Norris’s other plays include Visitors and Eventide, (Arcola), Nightfall (Bridge Theatre) and Second Best (Riverside). He is also the author of novels, including Five Rivers Met On A Wooded Plain and Undercurrent.

Post-Show Q&A with Terri Paddock – Tuesday 6th May, free to all ticket-holders


Blood Wedding is generously supported by:

The Boris Karloff Charitable Foundation

The John S Cohen Foundation

The Unity Theatre Trust

Royal Victoria Hall Foundation

30 APR – 24 MAY
7:30 PM (TUES-SAT), 2:30PM (SAT), 4PM (SUN)
£20 STANDARD, £18 CONCESSION, £15 PREVIEW

Blood Wedding | Rehearsal Gallery

Blood Wedding | Production Shots

CAST & CREW

Alix Dunmore (Sister Boniface TV, The 39 Steps, West End)

David Fielder (The Cleaner TV, As You Like It RSC, Small Island National Theatre)

Esme Lonsdale (Arthur’s Whisky Feature film)

Kiefer Moriarty (Around the world in 80 days-ish, The Velveteen Rabbit Feature film, Magic goes Wrong UK tour)

Christopher Neenan in his professional debut

Nell Williams (Game of Thrones, Young Sherlock TV, Huntington Feature film)

Director

Tricia Thorns

Set Design

Alex Marker

Costume Design

Carla Joy Evans

Lighting Design

Neill Brinkworth

Sound Design

Dominic Bilkey

Cast

Alix Dunmore

Helen

Trained: Bristol Old Vic Theatre School

For Two’s Company: Don’t Destroy Me (Arcola Theatre), Bodies, A Day by the Sea, The Fifth Column (Southwark Playhouse), London Wall (St James Theatre, West End/Finborough Theatre), What the Women Did (Southwark Playhouse),

Other theatre includes: The Silver Cord, Jane Clegg (Finborough Theatre), Stepping Out (Stephen Joseph Theatre), Ben Hur (Kiln), The 39 Steps (Criterion Theatre, West End), Gaslight (New Vic Theatre), Top Girls (Out of Joint Tour), Separate Tables (Mill at Sonning) and A Winter of War (Cheltenham Everyman).

Television includes: Haven (Amazon Prime), Sister Boniface, There She Goes, Call The Midwife, Doctors and Holby City (BBC)

Radio includes: The Man Who Fell to Earth, A Matter of Life and Death, Severus (BBC)

Film includes: The Pod Generation

David Fielder

Brian

David Fielder has worked in theatre productions extensively, both nationally and internationally over the past 53 years and this is his 256th play!

 Last seen at the RSC two years ago in a production of As You Like It, (his fifth) where the company, primarily over 70, were known as the “Freedom Pass Company”. Shakespeare and Beckett have always been his favourite authors, and he did work with one of them in person but is not saying which.

He comes from Todmorden on the Pennines and trained at The Central School Of Speech and Drama.

His first TV role was June in The Naked Civil Servant and his latest TV appearance was in The Cleaner with Greg Davis.

 His first major film was Superman III and his latest major movie was Peterloo. The full length film that was his favourite, released two years ago, was Then Come The Nightjars. 

He has made numerous short films and the latest to be released will be Laundreams set in Sheffield and Insulate set in Oldham.

This is his first time working with Two’s Company and hopes it won’t be the last!!!!!

Esme Lonsdale

Danni

Trained: RADA (1yr), AMAW, Meisner (Actors Temple)

Esme recently starred in the Sky Original Arthur’s Whisky alongside Diane Keaton, Patricia Hodge and Hayley Mills. She is currently in a popular Netflix Show (NDA) which is in production. 

Theatre includes: Out of Step (Drayton Arms Theatre) The Gift (Chelsea Theatre); Are you sitting comfortably (Hen and Chickens) Firewater (Edinburgh Fringe) Pericles (RADA)

Television includes:  Netflix show (in production), Several short films.

Audiobook includes: Heir (Penguin USA) Children of the Night (Rushforth Media) 

Film includes: Arthur’s Whisky (Sky Original) 

Kiefer Moriarty

Lee

Training: LAMDA

Theatre includes: Inked – A Story About Tattoos (Queen’s Theatre, Hornchurch), Around The World in 80 Days-ish! (York Theatre Royal), Magic Goes Wrong UK Tour (Mischief Theatre Company); Blood Wedding, Pericles Prince of Tyre, Three Days In The Country, A Doll’s House, Bad Jews, Kin, Man of Mode, Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812, The Winter’s Tale, Blithe Spirit, Country Music, Hippolytus, The Duchess of Malfi, The White Devil (LAMDA).

TV and Film includes: 260 Days, Vindicta, The Velveteen Rabbit, Doctors, East (Short).

Christopher Neenan

Rob

This is Christopher’s professional debut.

Nell Williams

Georgie

For Two’s Company: Don’t Destroy Me (Arcola),

Other theatre includes: Love and Information (Royal Court), The Audience (Gielgud)

Television includes: Young Sherlock, Elizabeth is Missing, Deep Water

Film includes: Huntington (A24), Blinded by The Light, The Good Liar  

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Accessibility

All performance spaces and facilities are fully wheelchair-accessible. For more info please contact Box Office on 0207 498 4699.

Ticket Collection

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Café Bar

Serving a menu of hot drinks, craft beers, wine and seasonal cocktails before and after every show and a full home-made food menu including freshly baked pastries, delicious cakes and savoury light bites from Friday – Sunday.

Content Warnings
Age Recommendation

12+

Duration

Approx. 2h 30m including interval 

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