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    The House of Bernarda Alba (NHB Classic Plays)
    The House of Bernarda Alba (NHB Classic Plays)
    The House of Bernarda Alba (NHB Classic Plays)
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    The House of Bernarda Alba (NHB Classic Plays)

    By Gabriel García Lorca

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    García Lorca's drama about the shattering effects of emotional repression on a family of cloistered daughters, in a version by playwright Rona Munro for the critically acclaimed Shared Experience Theatre Company.
    When Bernarda's husband dies, she locks all the doors and windows. She tells her grown-up daughers to sew and be silent. 'There are eight years of mourning ahead of us. While it lasts not even the wind will get into this house.' But locks can't hold back the growing tide of desire...
    Rona Munro's version of The House of Bernarda Alba was first staged by Shared Experience Theatre Company at Salisbury Playhouse in March 1999 before a UK tour.
    'Rona Munro's new translation is vigorous and direct' - Sunday Telegraph
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherNick Hern Books
    Release dateOct 31, 2019
    ISBN9781788501446
    The House of Bernarda Alba (NHB Classic Plays)
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    Gabriel García Lorca

    Federico del Sagrado Corazón de Jesús García Lorca, known as Federico García Lorca (5 June 1898 – 19 August 1936) was a Spanish poet, playwright, and theatre director. Lorca achieved international recognition as an emblematic member of the Generation of '27. His major plays include Blood Wedding, Yerma and The House of Bernarda Alba. He was executed by Nationalist forces during the Spanish Civil War.

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      The House of Bernarda Alba (NHB Classic Plays) - Gabriel García Lorca

      ACT ONE

      An inner room in BERNARDA’s house. Church bells are ringing in the distance.

      The SERVANT enters.

      SERVANT. I’ve got the pain of those bells right inside my head.

      PONCIA enters, eating bread and sausage.

      PONCIA. Over two hours of gabbling and wailing. There are priests here from all over. The church is looking lovely. At the first response Magdalena fainted.

      SERVANT. She’s the one who’s going to be lonely now.

      PONCIA. She’s the only one who loved the father. Oh! Thank God we’re alone for a moment. I’m going to stuff myself.

      SERVANT. If Bernarda sees you . . .

      PONCIA. Oh right, she’s not eating so she doesn’t care if the rest of us drop dead of hunger! Slave driver! Bullying old bitch! I’ve cheated her. I’ve opened the sausage jar.

      SERVANT. Why don’t you give me some for my little girl, Poncia?

      PONCIA. Dive in! Grab a handful of chickpeas too. She’ll not count them today.

      VOICE (off). Bernarda!

      PONCIA. There’s the old woman! Is she locked in alright?

      SERVANT. With two turns of the key.

      PONCIA. But you have to bolt the cross bar too. She’s got fingers like five lock-picks.

      VOICE (MARIA JOSEFA). Bernarda!

      PONCIA (calling off). She’s coming! (To SERVANT.) Do a good job now. If Bernarda doesn’t see a shine on everything she’ll pull out the few hairs I’ve got left.

      SERVANT. That woman!

      PONCIA. She crushes everything close to her. She could sit on your heart and watch you die a whole year and she’d never drop that frosty smile she wears on her wicked face. Scrub then! Scrub those glasses!

      SERVANT. I’ve got blood on my hands from all my scrubbing.

      PONCIA. She’s the cleanest, she’s the most respectable, she’s better than the lot of us. Her poor husband, he was due a good rest.

      The bells stop.

      SERVANT. Did all the relatives come?

      PONCIA. Just hers. His people hate her. They just stopped to see him dead and make the sign of the cross over him.

      SERVANT. Are there enough chairs?

      PONCIA. Plenty. They can sit on the floor. Since Bernarda’s father died nobody’s been welcome under this roof. She doesn’t want them to see her in her lair. Damn

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