La Casa De Bernarda Alba in Madrid

Federico García Lorca's final play, completed just months before his assassination in 1936, receives a new staging in Madrid. The drama unfolds entirely within the walls of a house in Andalusia, where the tyrannical Bernarda Alba imposes an eight-year mourning period on her five daughters after her second husband's death. The deliberate absence of any male character on stage heightens the suffocating tension as the daughters—Angustias, Magdalena, Amelia, Martirio, and Adela—struggle against their mother's iron control.

Attendees can expect a powerful exploration of repression, passion, and conformity, with the action driven by the daughters' jealousies and secret desires. The youngest, Adela, defies her mother by wearing a green dress and embarking on a clandestine affair with Pepe el Romano, the suitor of her eldest sister. The production captures the play's intense atmosphere, where a single gunshot and a tragic hanging bring the family's hidden conflicts to a devastating climax.

This staging offers a chance to experience Lorca's masterful portrayal of women in rural Spain, a work that remains as relevant today as when it first premiered in Buenos Aires in 1945. The Madrid run provides an opportunity to see a classic of Spanish theatre in the city that inspired much of Lorca's work.