Written in 1936, Federico Garcia Lorca’s The House of Bernarda Alba is considered one of the classics of Spanish theatre.
The cruel irony is Lorca never got to see a production of his powerful indictment of totalitarian patriarchal societies. Lorca, who was openly gay, was murdered at age 37 just four months after completing this play. The House of Bernarda Alba was banned in Spain and was not produced until it was staged in Buenos Aires in 1945.Sign up to receive daily headline news from the Calgary Herald, a division of Postmedia Network Inc.
“The sexual and emotional repression the women in Lorca’s play experience represent his repressed passions and desires as a queer man. At the time he wrote the play, Lorca could not openly say this much about how he felt and about this suffering, so he says these things through his female characters,” says Vilalta.
“We want this incredible queer playwright’s voice to be heard. We feel with this casting we are giving the essence of what Lorca would have wanted to see on stage but was not possible at that time.”
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