The House of Bernarda Alba
“Better never to lay eyes on a man, never to have seen one. Ever since I was a child, I’ve been frightened: the look of men, yoking up the oxen, picking up sacks of wheat, calling to each other, their thick voices, their thick boots. Every time I passed, fear of their hands, of their touch. God made me weak and ugly. It’s his way of keeping them away.”
So pronounces one of five unmarried daughters before her elder sister, being the richest if least attractive of the bunch, is hastily betrothed. The youngest, burning with desire, begins a passionate, clandestine affair with her sister’s suitor. She’s spied upon by a jealous sibling, with devastating consequences.
The poet Federico García Lorca was murdered by Franco’s supporters on 18 August 1936, just two months after he finished his masterpiece of love, oppression and loathing.
Cast & Crew
Cast
Adela | Sally Hawkins |
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Amelia | Katherine Manners |
Angustias | Sandy McDade |
Beggar Girl | Sophie Trott |
Beggar Woman | Jennifer Scott-Malden |
Bernarda Alba | Penelope Wilton |
First Woman | Rachael Spence |
Fourth Woman | Jennifer Hill |
Little Girl | Kirsty Wood |
Magdalena | Justine Mitchell |
Maria Josefa | Cherry Morris |
Martirio | Jo McInnes |
Poncia | Deborah Findlay |
Prudencia | Mary Cunningham |
Second Woman | Beth Fitzgerald |
The Servant | Pamela Merrick |
Third Woman | Maria Golledge |
Crew | |
Designer | Vicki Mortimer |
Director | Howard Davies |
Flute | Christopher Harding |
Keyboard | Rod Melvin |
Lighting Designer | Paule Constable |
Music | Dominic Muldowney |
New English version by | David Hare |
Sound Designer | Paul Groothuis |
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