The Blood Wedding, or Not Yet, Romeo and Juliet, is a ray of hope in a world of increasingly breaking hearts. It tells the story of a modern day couple that is battling against all odds, fighting for their love. Elizabeth and Marcus come from different walks of life; while Liz has always been more of a free bird, Marcus has always been tied to his conservative family. When these two met in university, they knew it wasn’t going to be all smooth sailing, but they fell in love. Parallel to their story is that of an angel and a devil, and their story begun centuries ago; they are the demon of betrayal and heartbreak and the angel of faith and love. The demon has, since long, set out to destroy all couples on earth while the angel tries to guide them through thick and thin. Unfortunately the demon has been increasingly successful with every case she’s been taking on for the past few decades, thus making many in our generation lose their faith in true love. The angel spots Liz and Mark, believes they can be a turning point in this losing battle, so he makes a bet with the demon: if after one year of trying, the demon cannot break them up, she has to stop her evil work. The audience is engaged into a world that they can all relate to, a story similar to one many of them may have to tell, but with a slight spin on it.
The play will be fast-paced for the most part, showing many different problems and issues couples of today’s age and time face and showing approaches different people have taken to tackle each problem. As the audience enters, they will be asked to take a seat according to ‘believers’ and ‘non-believers’, where the people who believe ‘true love can overcome all’ shall be seated on the right, and those who don’t shall sit on the left. The idea is that throughout the course of the play, they are allowed to switch seating sections and the aspiration is that more people will move from the left to the right than from the right to the left.
The play will be filled with moments when people will laugh and times when they may want to cry, scenes where they will feel hurt and scenes in which they will feel like rejoicing. In a world that is growing more and more cynical, this play attempts to show that thinking rationally and thinking with your heart do not have to be two different things.
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