I wish I could understand, or even appreciate theater more better, but I guess you got to be that way. The background and historical perspective is fascinating, though.
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Thank you. Your story greatly increased my illicit pleasure.
In Palma de Mallorca--one of the most beautiful cities in the world-- a rising hill is crossed by Calle Margarita Xirgu. At number 30 Bajo is a brothel that has been there for decades... two elderly women look after the half dozen staff. Yes, I have been there and will return with new found reverence.
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Margarita Xirgu was to Lorca what Richard Burbage was to Shakespeare--muse and inspiration for the playwright's greatest roles. Asked why he wrote so many plays for and about women, Lorca said it was because the finest actors of the day were women--a thought Hollywood might do well to embrace today.
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What a great story! Thanks so much for this eye-opening series.
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Lorca was not "found" in Granada. Lorca could travel freely between the two war zones because his rich landowner family had the right political connections, and Lorca himself was friends with Jose Antonio, the Falange's founder. His killing was nothing more than a warning from the long established landowners to the nouveau rich Garcia-Lorca family, who had to flee (to Brooklyn) after the war. His father Federico Garcia is buried in the Gate of Heaven Cemetery in Hawthorne NY.
Money (land) played a bigger role in his death than politics.
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Wow. What a remarkable woman.
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Thank you for writing this wonderful obituary for Margarita Xirgu. I had never heard of her and now I am fascinated with learning more about her. Well done!
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