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Students in the Â鶹Éç Theatre and Media Performance program are presenting Federico García Lorca’s play, The House of Bernarda Alba. The play, directed by Ryan Clark, Program Coordinator and Professor of Theatre, will be presented through Sunday, April 13 at the Inscape Theatre on Stevenson’s Greenspring Campus. Watch the video below for a preview of the play:

Written in 1936, just before the start of the Spanish Civil War, The House of Bernarda Alba is set in a small village in southern Spain following the funeral of Bernarda Alba’s second husband. After the mourners depart, the tyrannical matriarch announces to her five daughters that their period of mourning will last eight years. Obsessed with family honor, Bernarda rules the household with an iron fist, but all her daughters secretly harbor a passion for Pepe el Romano, the handsomest man in the village. The eldest daughter is engaged to him, but the arrangement is a financial one, and it is the youngest daughter, Adela, who becomes his lover. When the truth finally breaks through the atmosphere of suppressed desire, jealousy, anger, and fear, the consequences are tragic. Adela takes her own life, and Bernarda makes a desperate attempt to maintain control of her shattered household.

Â鶹Éç theatre productions are part of the Arts Alive! initiative, bringing creative and cultural programs—including guest speakers, theatre and music performances, and exhibitions—to campus to inspire creativity, learning, and discovery.  

Tickets are available at . The play will be presented April 10, 11, and 12 at 7:00 p.m., and April 13 at 2:00 p.m.

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