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...director Mary E. Birnbaum ’07, this story of a proud widow who attempts to keep her household from shame by oppressing her five rebellious daughters suggests sexual frustration and a deep disillusionment with men. These themes collide forcefully with the claustrophobia of small-town life in Spain at the turn of the century. Written by Federico Garcia Lorca and running in the Loeb Experimental Theater until April 22, the particulars of “Bernarda Alba” are not always perfect. Yet the show succeeds in presenting a drama that is both amusing and deeply tragic...
...controversial almost from birth. Opus threatened the era's Catholic clericalism, which privileged priests, monks and nuns over the laity, and Escriv was called a heretic. In the 1950s, several prominent Opus Dei members joined Franco's dictatorial but church-supportive regime in Spain, inaugurating speculation about the group's political leanings. The church's Second Vatican Council (1962-65) seemed to catch up with Escriv's idea of lay activism--but his rigid adherence to Catholic teaching put his system at odds with liberals who accorded the laity a wide freedom of conscience. He himself was a polarizing figure...
...foot burlap ceiling, hiding the normal cobweb of lightbulbs and steel catwalks that gives “the Ex” its “experimental” feel. The ceiling, which took approximately ten hours to make and install, gives the stage the rustic feel of rural Spain...
...Bernarda Alba” is, in fact, a “social experiment,” according to Birnbaum, asking what would happen were men to disappear. Set in rural Spain, the cloistered home of matron Bernarda Alba, played by Alexandra C. Palma ’08, is rife with internal female conflict and external societal tensions. The cast, which is comprised of nine female actors, includes Ellen C. Quigley ’07 as Poncia, a servant, and Olga I. Zhulina ’09, as the fiery youngest daughter Adela...
...Step three: expansion and war. The Japanese took on Russia, China and, in 1941, the United States. The Germans made two bids for hegemony in World Wars I and II. Though a democracy, the U.S. itself could not resist the lure of empire, grabbing Cuba and the Philippines from Spain...