The House of Bernarda Alba explores themes of repression, passion and conformity through the depiction of a matriarch’s domination of her five daughters. Described by the author as “a drama of women in the villages of Spain”, the deliberate exclusion of any male character from the action helps build the high level of sexual tension that is present throughout this masterpiece.
Running time:1 hour 30 minutes with 15-minute interval
This is the story of a love triangle, of forbidden love and betrayal, which takes place when Naples was a Spanish city. Thus, the Countess's house, manipulated by the nobles, represents that part of Spanish society that lived outside the country.
UNA NIÑA ES UNA COSA A MEDIO FORMAR/A GIRL IS A HALF-FORMED THING
By Eimear McBride
Adaptation Annie Ryan
Directed by Juan Miranda
Translated by Adriana Toledano Kolteniuk and Pía Laborde-Noguez
From her birth and through childhood and adolescence, a girl tries to shape her identity in the violent world that surrounds her. A throbbing story that will take the protagonist, a body without a name, to experience her own sexuality as a tool of self-destruction that blurs the boundaries between body, pleasure, and pain.
The time has come for Saturnino Morales, a typical supporting actor, who is ill with tuberculosis and confined to a hospital for the poor.
He is preparing for the moment when "the curtain will fall on his life", yet he does not want to say goodbye to the world without playing his dream character: Don Juan Tenorio.
He, who always played the servant, the joker..., the eternal secondary character both in real life and on stage, wants "in this last hour of his life" and, with the help of an imaginary audience that listens to him and watches him from the darkness: to get on the bill, to be, even if only for once in his life, the protagonist, the leading actor: DON JUAN TENORIO.
