The House of Bernarda Alba

The House of Bernarda Alba

by Federico Garcia Lorca (Author), David Hare (Adapter), Simon Scardifield (Translator), David Hare (Adapter), Federico Garcia Lorca (Author), Federico Garcia Lorca (Author)

Synopsis

Finished just two months before the author's murder on 18 August 1936 by a gang of Franco's supporters, The House of Bernarda Alba is now accepted as Lorca's great masterpiece of love and loathing. Five daughters live together in a single household with a tyrannical mother. When the father of all but the eldest girl dies, a cynical marriage is advanced which will have tragic consequences for the whole family. Lorca's fascinatingly modern play, rendered here in an English version by David Hare, speaks as powerfully as a political metaphor of oppression as it does as domestic drama. The House of Bernarda Alba premiered at the National Theatre, London, in March 2005.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 96
Edition: Main
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Published: 17 Mar 2005

ISBN 10: 0571227570
ISBN 13: 9780571227570
Book Overview: The House of Bernarda Alba - David Hare's translation of a play by Federico Garcia Lorca, the great Spanish playwright and poet - speaks as powerfully as a political metaphor of oppression as it does a domestic drama.

Author Bio
Federico Garcia Lorca (1898 - 1936), poet and dramatist was one the greatest Spanish writers of the twentieth-century. He was killed by Nationalist partisans at the age of thirty-eight at the beginning of the Spanish Civil War. David Hare's first full-length play was produced in 1970. Since then he has written over thirty stage plays and twenty-five screenplays for film and television. The plays include Plenty, Pravda (with Howard Brenton), The Secret Rapture, Racing Demon, Skylight, Amy's View, The Blue Room, Via Dolorosa, Stuff Happens, The Absence of War, The Judas Kiss, The Red Barn and The Moderate Soprano. For cinema, he has written The Hours, The Reader, Damage, Denial, Wetherby and The White Crow among others, while his television films include Licking Hitler, the Worricker Trilogy (Page Eight, Turks & Caicos, and Salting the Battlefield) and Collateral. In a millennial poll of the greatest plays of the twentieth century, five of the top hundred were his.