Word: bernarda
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...same time, he revealed that the organization would attempt to gain either a Brattle or U.T. premiere for its recently completed all-dance film, House of Bernarda Alba. The film which is produced and directed by Graef, was made in conjunction with the Boston Conservatory of Music. Based on a play by Garcia Lorcha, it is slated to run for ten minutes...
That night the town crowned a queen, pretty Bernarda Morales, daughter of a warehouse watchman, and danced until dawn. For still a third day and night, the fiesta went on. Then, exhausted, Tehuantepec went to bed. Back of the bougain-villea-twined wall, a guitar plunked and a lazy voice rose...
...sultry tragedy of village life, it centers around the bigoted, domineering Widow Bernarda Alba. After the funeral of her second husband, she shuts her five daughters off from the outside world for eight years of mourning...
Envenomed by repression, all the sisters fall madly in love with Pepe El Romano, who is engaged to the eldest, Angustias. Night after night the youngest, Adela, slips outside to make love to Pepe in a barn. The ugliest sister, Martirio, informs Bernarda. In an outburst of fury the widow shoots Pepe. Adela hangs herself...
Lest the censor interfere, La Carátula did not make any public announcement of the show. But word seeped through the cafes. The club's membership quickly expanded. When the curtain rose on a simple cardboard backdrop depicting Bernarda Alba's village home, a capacity audience was on hand. In the front row sat the supreme censor himself, bespectacled Garcia Espina, Director General of the Theater and Cinema...