Opera and Dance: Cruel Garden
... Cruel Garden LFB THERE ARE two scenes in Cruel Garden at Sadler's Wells which drive the audience into a state of frenzy: when the matador fights the bull and, later, when the matador fights on alone. In both, speed, shape and desire for power order the dance. The matador is Lorca, poet of the oppressed. The bull is authoritorian- ism and with his victory, following the goring of the poet ...