![]() Pepe "el Romano", the love interest of Bernarda's daughters and suitor of Angustias, never appears on stage. ![]() The deliberate exclusion of any male character from the action helps build up the high level of sexual tension that is present throughout the play. The housekeeper (La Poncia) and Bernarda's elderly mother (María Josefa) also live there. The play centers on the events of a house in Andalusia during a period of mourning, in which Bernarda Alba (aged 60) wields total control over her five daughters Angustias (39 years old), Magdalena (30), Amelia (27), Martirio (24), and Adela (20). The play was first performed on 8 March 1945 at the Avenida Theatre in Buenos Aires. The House of Bernarda Alba was Garcia Lorca's last play, completed on 19 June 1936, two months before Garcia Lorca's death during the Spanish Civil War. Garcia Lorca described the play in its subtitle as a drama of women in the villages of Spain. ![]() Garcia Lorca did not include it in his plan for a "trilogy of the Spanish land" (which remained unfinished at the time of his murder). Commentators have often grouped it with Blood Wedding and Yerma as a "rural trilogy". ![]() The House of Bernarda Alba ( Spanish: La casa de Bernarda Alba) is a play by the Spanish dramatist Federico García Lorca. For the film adaptations, see The House of Bernarda Alba (disambiguation). ![]()
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