BIZARRE: Federico garcia lorca person - What They Never Told You

Penélope Cruz on why queer history must be discussed today

The Oscar-winning actress tells The Standard at London premiere the story of La Bola Negra is more relevant than ever

Evening Standard · Oct 10

Lorca's latest works found: a love letter cut short by the Civil War and an unpublished poem

Scholars are still uncovering works by the Granada poet and playwright, shot 90 years ago for his politics and sexuality. Two biopics about him are due between 2026 and 2027.

Euronews · Aug 18

Rebecca Perry: ‘Lorca hit me like a bolt of lightning’

The poet and novelist on the power of fairytales, being inspired by Frank O’Hara and the joys of Doris Lessing

The Guardian - UK · Aug 14

Spain grants citizenship to descendants of civil war’s International Brigades

About 32,000 volunteered to fight Franco dictatorship, including 2,500 men and women from Britain and Ireland

The Guardian - UK · Nov 4, 2025

Acosta Danza: A Decade in Motion at Sadler’s Wells review: no fireworks and precious little fun

2/5 This tenth birthday celebration of Carlos Acosta’s company gives its dancers stylish performances, but not always in the material they deserve

Evening Standard · Sep 24, 2025

‘Difficult love’: Spanish publisher reprints groundbreaking book of Lorca’s homoerotic sonnets

Federico García Lorca’s poems were printed anonymously in 1983 after being hidden away by family for 50 years

The Guardian - UK · Jun 13, 2025

The week in theatre: Macbeth; The House of Bernarda Alba – review

Ralph Fiennes and Indira Varma are magnetic murderers in Simon Godwin’s bleakly immersive warehouse production, while Harriet Walter commands the stage in Rebecca Frecknall’s stylish, if underheated Lorca

The Guardian - UK · Dec 3, 2023

The House of Bernarda Alba review – Harriet Walter rules as Lorca gets a refurb

Adapted by Alice Birch and directed by Rebecca Frecknall, this is a stylised study in control and daughterly disobedience

The Guardian - UK · Nov 29, 2023

Alice Birch: ‘When I’m writing, the banalities of motherhood such as head lice disappear’

The Normal People screenwriter talks about growing up in a commune, heartbreaking plays, and ​the r​umours that she’s collaborating with Taylor Swift

The Guardian - UK · Oct 22, 2023

Ainadamar review – a defiant and impassioned defence of freedom

Welsh National Opera mount Osvaldo Golijov’s opera about the assassinated Spanish poet and playwright Federico García Lorca – a fiercely evocative piece with the feel of a passion play

The Guardian - UK · Sep 10, 2023