About Lorca Theatre Magazine

English translation. 

By Armando García

Editor and founder of Lorca Magazine

In the 1960s, my father and my grandfather used to take me to see the bullfights in Mexico City. I was told that it was the big brave party. The fight between the beast and the man, who emerged triumphantly holding with his hands up as a grand prize, the bull’s two ears and the tail after the beast was annihilated with the sword of the bullfighter. The great Sunday’s afternoon slaughter usually started at five in the afternoon.

During the family gatherings to talk about the great bullfighting party, there was always someone who was encouraged to sing, to say poetry and it was at that time that I heard the poem “The Weeping for Ignacio Sánchez Mejía", of the great Spanish poet and playwright Federico García Lorca. The weeping is a set of four elegies that Lorca composed for his friend the full fighter or Matador Ignacio Sánchez Mejia’s, who was an outstanding member of the generation of 1927, and died of gangrene in 1934 because of a herd in the bullring of Manzanares by the Bull of Granadino. L

By listening to the crying story, I was impressed as the death of a man for his confrontation with a bull, could have so much impact that even became poetic matter with elements to be even dramatized and choreographed around the world.

Years went by and when I started my first days on the dramatic arena, came to my hands a record of 45 revolutions produced by the Mexican theater group Los Mascarones, where I found the recording of the Weeping by Ignacio Sánchez Mejía.

So, from that moment, I decided to get involved in studying dramatic arts based on the work of García Lorca.

Thanks to casting calls, presentations, auditions and cultural and social political movements, I became part of the group Los Mascarones and of course within me wanted to act and even direct Lorca’s poem or even any of his plays.  And I did.  In addition to Mejia’s, I have directed Lorca’s Billy Club Puppets, the House of Bernarda Alba, Blood Wedding, and Doña Rosita the Spinster.

As a journalist and playwright, I dared to found Lorca Theatre Magazine in honor of Federico García Lorca and dedicated to the promotion of popular and experimental theatre in the American continent. The blog of the magazine is published in Texas, United States of America.

Armando García

Editor

Lorca Theatre Magazine