I only have you left, and I’m sad you are leaving. She bakes her own bread, and sews her own skirts, yet I feel, when she’s named, as if I’d been struck on the forehead with a stone. Suddenly, like this, it always takes me by surprise. Your grandfather left offspring everywhere. Mother What use is an old woman in a vineyard? Are you going to lay me down under the vines?īridegroom ( Taking her in his arms) Old, so old, so very old. You’d not go to the river now, and we would sit and sew.īridegroom ( Taking his mother’s arm and laughing) Mother, what if I took you with me to the vineyard? It’s this…I wish you wouldn’t go to the fields. Mother No…if you want to know, it’s this…How can I not speak when you go through that door? It’s this…I don’t like you carrying a knife. What is prison? They still eat there, they smoke they play their instruments! My dead push up the grass, silently turning to dust two who were like flowers….the killers, in prison, coolly gazing at the mountains… Can anyone give me back your father or your brother? And they talk about prison. The months pass and pain still pricks my eyes, to the very roots of my hair. First, your father, who brought me the scent of carnations, and enjoyed me three short years, and then, your brother…is it right, is it possible that so small a thing as a pistol or a knife can do for a man, a bull of a man? I’ll never be quiet. Mother If I lived a hundred years I could speak of nothing else. I don’t know how you can carry a knife about you, or why I have these serpent’s teeth in my kitchen. Or if he does return it’s so we can lay a palm leaf or a big plate of salt on him so the body won’t swell. Mother Whatever can cut through a man’s body, a lovely man, in the flower of his life, who is off to the vines or the olives, because they are his, his family’s….īridegroom ( Lowering his head) You’ve missed the point. Mother And shotguns, and pistols, and little razors, and even hoes and winnowing hooks. Mother( muttering) Knives, knives…Curse them all, and the wretch who invented them… Where the original works are not in the public domain, any required permissions should also be sought from the representatives of the Lorca estate, Casanovas & Lynch Agencia Literaria.īridegroom To the vineyard ( He makes as if to leave)īridegroom Never mind. Please note that Federico García Lorca's original, Spanish works may not be in the public domain in all jurisdictions, notably the United States of America. Permission to perform this version of the play, on stage or film, by amateur or professional companies, and for commercial purposes, should be requested from the translator. This work may be freely reproduced, stored and transmitted, electronically or otherwise, for any non-commercial purpose. Published as part of the collection ‘ Four Final Plays’, ISBN-10: 1986116565, March 2018. Made available as an individual, open-access work in the United Kingdom, 2007, via the Poetry in Translation website. ‘The Reconciliation of the Montagues and the Capulets’ Since 2015: Permanent Board Member of FEMIA (Mexican council for aeronautic industry) Since 2007: Chairman of the bilateral Mexican French committee of COMCE 2003-2004: French honorary Consul in Cancun.A tragedy in three acts and seven scenes - 1933 Since 2015: President of CEEG (This council formed by 52 CEO of global companies operating in Mexico represents 10% of the Mexican GDP, 40% of FDI, 11% Exports, 2 million jobs. ITA (Inversiones y Técnicas Aeroportuarias), the strategic shareholder of ASUR, ▪ Director of Marketing of ASUR, Aeropuertos del Sureste, ▪ Business Engineer in the French company GTM (Grands Travaux de Marseille) merged with VINCI in 2000, based in France. o Previously ▪ Founder and main shareholder of LAATSA - Mexican consultancy company for aeronautic industry ▪ General Manager of An executive with 25 years of experience in managing and developing both governmental & private projects in Latin America (aeronautic and space, defense, transport infrastructures) o Since 2004: CEO of AIRBUS Mexico.
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