25 Oct – 03 Nov
2024

Spain 1936. Poet and playwright Federico Garcia Lorca thinks himself too insignificant to be of interest to the fascist death squads. He’s wrong. Lorca, a supporter of Spain’s fragile democracy and an (almost) publicly gay man, plans a visit to his family in Granada. The Lorcas are respected members of Granada’s social and political elite and Federico’s artistic connections cut across all political boundaries. Maybe this is why he feels immune from the vicious political violence that heralds Franco’s fascist rebellion. But as threat becomes reality during the stifling, blood-soaked summer of 1936, events spiral out of the young writer’s control. Words become weapons, and a casual joke is revealed as a tragic prophecy.