La Casa de Bernarda Alba

Bernarda Alba imposes the strictest mourning on her household following the death of the head of the family. She has the doors and windows sealed up, confining all the women of the house behind iron bars and thick limewashed walls. A dangerous tension silently grows among the five daughters, Angustias, Magdalena, Amelia, Martirio and Adela. La Poncia, who has served the household all her life, warns of it. The outside world, with its people and the murmur of day and night, weighs upon the women’s chests like the scorching summer heat bearing down from above. Out there are the men, and the songs, and the dry fields that they plough and that stretch everywhere. But there are also the rumours, and the sensual, taut shadow of the man who will bring disaster upon the household. Nothing and no one will be able to control the greater forces and vital impulses that drive Bernarda Alba’s household towards a universal tragedy of death and life.

A production of La Perla 29