The House of Bernarda Alba
- Dates
- Jan 7 â Jan 20, 1951
- Performances
- 17
About
The House of Bernarda Alba (Spanish: La casa de Bernarda Alba) is a play by the Spanish dramatist Federico GarcĂa Lorca. Commentators have often grouped it with Blood Wedding and Yerma as the Rural Trilogy. GarcĂa Lorca did not include it in his plan for a "trilogy of the Spanish land" (which remained unfinished at the time of his murder). GarcĂa Lorca described the play in its subtitle as a drama of women in the villages of Spain. The House of Bernarda Alba was GarcĂa Lorca's last play, completed on 19 June 1936, two months before his assassination during the Spanish Civil War. The play was first performed on 8 March 1945 at the Avenida Theatre in Buenos Aires. The play centers on the events of a house in Andalusia during a period of mourning, in which Bernarda Alba (aged 60) wields tota...