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Juan Martin Blood Wedding review
Juan is currently playing in Blood Wedding at the Playhouse in Liverpool. Alfred Hickling glowing review in the Guardian makes for excellent reading and if you’re in or around Liverpool you should get yourself along tonight or tomorrow, show ends its run 29th November 2008, call 0151 709 4776 or online here.


Federico García Lorca's dramas are so embedded in the red earth and fierce heat of Andalucía that it is difficult for any non-Spanish company to do them justice. Cut to the Chase is a young company whose origins are Liverpudlian rather than Andalucian. But their attempt to tap into the brusque, rural rhythm of Lorca's world is considerably aided by the presence of the greatest flamenco guitarist of his generation.

Juan Martín literally wrote the book on Spanish guitar styles: his El Arte Flamenco de la Guitarra is a worldwide bestseller, and he was recently rated among the top three players in the world by American Guitar Player magazine. Listening to his contribution to this production, you wonder why he didn't rank any higher. In Martín's hands, flamenco is not so much a musical style as an entire culture compressed into a quivering box of air. Sitting unassumingly upstage, Martin deftly enhances each scene with scintillating washes of tonal colour; from fatalistic, minor-key meditations to the urgent pounding of horses' hooves, rapped out against the face of the guitar.


Alfred Hickling review of Blood Wedding, Playhouse, Liverpool in the Guardian


If you can’t make this show then Juan Martin is on tour early in the New Year with his Flamenco Ensemble. A dazzling company of dancers and musicians!

“Nothing could have prepared us for the sheer sexual theatre of this flamenco”
Aberdeen Press


Juan Martin Flamenco Ensemble dates for 2008-09

Juan Martin


12 December - 13 December 2008
Nunnington Hall, Nunnington York, YO62 5UY
Contact: box office: 01439 748283
Juan Martin York

14 December 2008
Nunnington Hall, Nunnington York, YO62 5UY
Contact: box office: 01439 748283
Juan Martin Masterclass

31 January 2009
Town Hall, Lewes
Contact: 01323 841414
Juan Martin Lewes

01 February 2009
Beck Theatre, Hayes
Contact: 020 8561 8371
Juan Martin Hayes

03 February 2009
Haymarket Theatre, Basingstoke
Contact: 01256 844244
Juan Martin Basingstoke

04 February
Bridgewater Hall, Manchester
Contact: 0161 907 9000
Juan Martin Manchester

05 February 2009
Town Hall, Birmingham
Contact: 0121 780 3333
Juan Martin Birmingham

06 February 2009
Grand Opera House, York
Contact: 0844 847 2322
Juan Martin York

12 February 2009
City Hall, Salisbury
Contact: 01722 434434
Juan Martin Salisbury

13 February 2009
Juan Martin North Hykeham
Terry O'Toole Theatre
North Kesteven Centre
Moor Lane
North Hykeham
Contact: 01522 883311

14 February 2009
Art Centre, Aberystwyth
Contact: 01970 623232
Juan Martin Aberystwyth

16 February 2009
Theatre by the Lake, Keswick
Contact: 01768 774411
Juan Martin Keswick

21 May 2009
Barbican, London
Contact: 020 7638 8891
Juan Martin Barbican

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