July 23-Aug. 2, 2009

Thursday, Friday, Saturdays ---8PM

Sundays ----3PM & 8PM

Reservation Line: 323-467-0036

Underground Theatre: 1312 N. Wilton Pl. LA, Ca 90028

"The House of Bernarda Alba (Spanish: La casa de Bernarda Alba) is a play by the Spanish dramatist Federico García Lorca. It has often been grouped together with Blood Wedding and Yerma to form a "rural trilogy", although this play did not form part of Lorca's plan for a "trilogy of the Spanish earth" (which remained unfinished at the time of his death).[1] Lorca described the play in its subtitle as a drama of women in the villages of Spain. The House of Bernarda Alba was Lorca's last play, completed on 19 June, 1936, several months before Lorca's execution. The play was first performed in 1945. The play centers on the events of an Andalusian house during a period of mourning, in which the title character (age 60) wields total control over her five daughters Angustias (39 years old), Magdalena (30), Amelia (27), Martirio, (24), and Adela (20). The housekeeper (La Poncia) and Bernarda's mother (María Josefa) also live there. The deliberate exclusion of any male character from the action is highly significant as it helps to build up the high level of sexual tension that is present throughout the play. Pepe "el Romano", the love interest of Bernarda's daughters and suitor of Angustias, never actually appears on stage.

The play explores themes of repression, passion, and conformity, and inspects the effects of men upon women. Bernarda's cruel tyranny over her daughters foreshadows the stifling nature of Franco's fascist regime, which was to arrive just a few weeks after Lorca finished writing his play. Lorca's association with a number of intellectuals who belonged to the Communist Party of Spain such as Rafael Alberti was to result in his assassination shortly after the outbreak of Civil War in July 1936." -From Wikipedia, the free ecyclopedia

Bernadette Vasquez - Maria Josefa
Kenlyn Kanouse -Bernarda
Melanie Blue - Angustias
Martha Solorzano - (http://MarthaSolorzano) - Magdalena
Alexis Johnson - Amelia
Stephanie Keating - Martirio
Melissa Rivera - Adela
Eileen Rogers - (http://Eileen Rogers) - Poncia
Angela M. Gordon - Maid
Norma Campbell - Prudencia
Lyndsey Jimenez - Daughter
Jorie Stern -Daughter
Hannah Bornstein - Maid Marisol
Mariana Janik - Maid Monica
Cecilia Gomez - Cook
Lauren LeMay - Maid Tyra
Paul Galazo -one of the Men
Adrian Knight - one of the men
Brent A. McCoy - one of the men
Balthazar Gallardo - one of the men
Sonyia r. Joiner - Stage Manager
Steve Helgoth -Director
Frayne Rosanoff -Intent