Word: bernardas
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Director Christie Dickason was unusually fortunate in her casting. Jacqueline French as the matriarch Bernarda and Ruth Edinburg as Poncia, her maid, are both professional actresses, and the rest of the cast match their performance...
...second Lorca play at the Loeb this season, The House of Bernarda Alba, is a stark drama polished down to essentials. It contains the essence of Lorca's dramatic technique, though poetry is much less prominent here than in Blood Wedding, which ran on the main stage earlier this fall. Happily, the North House production of Bernarda Alba preserves Lorca's restrained tone; it is a remarkably balanced production of consistent good quality...
...Bernarda, newly-widowed, is a woman who though she has borne and raised five children, remains a virgin: neither love nor motherhood has touched her heart. As a petty Spanish aristocrat, she is obsessed with the duty to maintain the honor of her House by holding her daughters to eight years of strict mourning for their father. But as often happens in Lorca, the Fates, working through human passions, have decreed tragedy. The House which Bernarda must keep unstained (alba) is marked for ruin...
...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...