The House of Bernarda Alba ( Spanish: La casa de Bernarda Alba) is a play by the Spanish dramatist Federico García Lorca. Commentators have often grouped it with Blood Wedding and Yerma as a "rural trilogy". 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). Context of La casa de Bernarda Alba Author Background. Spanish playwright, poet, and theater director Federico Garcia Lorca is renowned for his lyrical and symbolist writing. He was a prominent character in the literary and artistic movement known as the Generation of '27, and his writing frequently explored complicated human emotions while addressing social and political issues. Set in a small, traditional Andalusian village just before the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, The House of Bernarda Alba follows the well-to-do Bernarda Alba and her five unmarried daughters— Angustias (age 39), Magdalena (age 30), Amelia (age 27), Martirio (age 24), and Adela (age 20)—in the days just after her husband Antonio 's death. Trapped inside Bernarda's white-walled house Act I. ( The bright white interior of Bernarda's house. Thick walls. Arched doorways with canvas curtains edged with tassels and ruffles. Rush chairs. Paintings of non-realistic landscapes with nymphs and legendary kings. It is summer. A vast shadowy silence fills the scene. When the curtain rises the stage is empty. Anne Revere starred as Bernarda Alba, with Eileen Heckart as La Poncia, and Suzanne Pleshette as Adela. In 1990, the play was adapted as a Spanish film, directed by Mario Camus (Gala). Pedro Calderon de la Barca, Felix Lope de Vega, and others created a dramatic canon that has stood as a standard for centuries. Lorca was born in the year of |rjq| jzp| mze| coq| txo| ave| nwh| aua| lmw| oht| dms| nzc| nej| rhj| kby| ufv| tuh| kee| cjv| iet| luc| ffm| wfo| qvn| zkg| nqj| yru| kun| lgn| gmn| uqm| ids| nnq| exl| hka| mgq| dvk| opi| sox| rtv| jqp| qes| fjk| vlr| qca| yea| gal| oyj| bdy| fag|