Since the start of the Covid pandemic closures in 2020, many independent, alternative and fringe theatre venues and companies across the UK and beyond responded to the challenges of lockdowns by taking their shows online – and OffWestEnd has responded to this whole new strand of theatre by launching a new award, the OnComm, for the best of this new stream of online theatre.
‘Language is beautifully used’: THE HOUSE OF BERNARDA ALBA – Cervantes Theatre
In The House of Bernarda Alba at Cervantes Theatre, Lorquian language is beautifully used and the production showcases bright and powerful actresses on stage.
The House of Bernarda Alba – Cervantes Theatre ★★★★
The play subliminally hints at the insuperable attraction between men and women, that no conditioning can overcome. The non-verbal lure of the masculine ‘other’ calls to the women.
LA CASA DE BERNARDA ALBA – Cervantes Theatre
The Cervantes Theatre’s current staging of Lorca’s classic, alternating between English and Spanish, is a powerful and deeply humane examination of the effects of ruling through oppression, as well as how unspent desire swiftly festers and toxifies.
Acts of theatre resistance: Insignificance, Young Marx, Imagine This, Bernarda Alba
While not Political Plays per se, over the past fortnight, I’ve seen several productions that have reminded me that theatre can play an important part in telling stories of resistance.
FEATURED SHOW: The House of Bernarda Alba at Cervantes Theatre, ★★★★ reviews are in!
Lorca classic The House of Bernarda Alba (La Casa de Bernarda Alba) gets a major new production – with performances in both Spanish and English – at the custom-built Cervantes Theatre, the new home for Spanish and Latin American drama in London. 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.
THE HOUSE OF BERNARDA ALBA – Cervantes Theatre
Federico Garcia Lorca’s play, The House of Bernarda Alba, offers an interesting insight into the world of upper-middle-class Spanish women in the 1930s, living in a small village where everyone knows everyone else’s business.
PHOTOS: First look at Spanish Theatre Company’s The House of Bernarda Alba
Lorca classic The House of Bernarda Alba (La Casa de Bernarda Alba) gets a major new production – with performances in both Spanish and English – at the custom-built Cervantes Theatre, the new home for Spanish and Latin American drama in London. Have a sneak-peek at our first-look production photos – then get booking! The House of Bernarda Alba explores themes of repression, …
‘Lorca is pure theatre’: Director Jorge de Juan on his Lorca journey & The House Of Bernarda Alba
A major new production of Lorca’s 1936 classic The House of Bernarda Alba (La Casa de Bernarda Alba) has its first performance tonight at the custom-built Cervantes Theatre, the new home for Spanish and Latin American drama in London. Director Jorge de Juan explains the journey he’s been on with his compatriot playwright.
VIDEO: Lorca classic The House Of Bernarda Alba comes to London’s home of Spanish theatre
Lorca classic The House of Bernarda Alba (La Casa de Bernarda Alba) gets a major new production – with performances in both Spanish and English – at the custom-built Cervantes Theatre, the new home for Spanish and Latin American drama in London. Have a look at our sneak-peek trailer and full casting news – then get booking! After the success of its opening …
THE HOUSE OF BERNARDA ALBA – Manchester
Federico Garcia Lorca’s formidable text, in a wonderfully uncompromising translation by Jo Clifford which is set within the distinctive confines of Manchester’s Royal Exchange Theatre.
THE HOUSE OF BERNARDA ALBA – Edinburgh
Intense and mannered, Leitheatre’s production of Lorca’s The House of Bernarda Alba at the Festival Theatre Studio strikes a chord with contemporary events.