shades of lula del ray in the desert

Not that there was anything in this play about SETI, as there had been in "Lula del Ray".

Nor was there any Western music, as there had been in that SMF event in 2018.

Nope.

Tonight's one-act play had already been a winner for the Savannah Arts Academy students, allowing them to bring home the trophy from the state competition.

Next week, they'll take "Bodas De Sangre" to the national competition.

I was there for the first of three nights for them to perform "Blood Wedding" in front of family and friends and us local supporters!

What an intense play it was, too!

A mother who had lost her husband and first son to knife fights feared that she would lose her second son that way, too.

He was to wed a young woman who had been dating a man who was their enemy.

To further complicate matters, that man was married to the cousin of the young woman, and he had a child and another coming with that wife.

But here's the real issue: that man and the young woman were still carrying on at night, a fact borne out by the hard-ridden horse each morning.

Wow.

Very intense... and performed in less than an hour.

Actually, the entire process from setting up the opening scene to the last stroke of the broom as the stage was cleared for the next troupe, including the performance itself, was completed in less than 45 minutes.

Those were the rules of the competition.

Wow.

Unlike their comical entry last year, this one was deadly serious.

That one had a giant in its midst; this boasted the use of shadow images of the horse being raced across a dark desert.

Wow.

Kudos to their director, David Poole, and to this fine cast!

And thanks to Tomasz and his lovely wife for sitting with me!