The House of Bernarda Alba

By Federico García Lorca
Translation: Rivka Meshulach
Directed by: Eti Reznik
Set design: Dafna Peretz
Costumes: Rona Mishol
Lighting: Yehonatan Gurfiel
Music: Efi Shoshani
Text coaching: Leah Wohl-Segal

A play about tyranny, jealousy, and passions—and above all, about a desperate struggle for freedom and dreams of another life.

Bernarda, a widow who imposes a tyrannical rule over her five unmarried daughters; an old woman who has lost her mind; and a servant—eight women without a man, imprisoned in a silent, cold hell, a grave for the living beneath the scorching August sun in Andalusia.

From the introduction to the play by Alan Joseph and Juan Coajero:

A play about tyranny and intolerance.

In a closed Andalusian house, the home of Bernarda Alba, a story begins and ends in mourning, begins and ends in silence, and begins and ends in death.

Lorca defined his play as “a drama of women in the villages of Spain,” and in fact as a “filmed document” that is a political and social allegory for Spain.

This is a masterpiece of profound symbolism, despite its realism.

This was Federico García Lorca’s final play. It was written in 1936, several months before he was murdered by the fascists during the Spanish Civil War.

Featuring third-year students, Class 65:

Adi Avidar / Shir Brik, Talia Benjamin, Noy Bardugo, Noam Sol Baruch, Hana Bernstein, Sofia Traunsky, Eden Levy, Odelia Kachol, Roni Nadler, Noa Rubnovich / Ortal Tamim