Five sisters, one tyrant mother, zero exits—this house is a pressure cooker and someone's about to blow.
In the domain of Bernarda Alba, a daughter who disobeys is no longer a daughter. Forced to live under their mother’s tight grip as they mourn their father’s death, can five sisters survive when young Adela dares for passion and freedom?
Acting
Harriet Walter's Bernarda: terrifying stillness, every syllable a prison sentence.
Production
The house itself breathes—doors, walls, heat all closing in.
Direction
Frecknall turns domestic spaces into psychological battlegrounds.
Director
Rebecca Frecknall
Harriet Walter
Bernarda Alba
Lizzie Annis
Martirio
Pearl Chanda
Magdalena
Rosalind Eleazar
Angustias
Isis Hainsworth
Adela
Thusitha Jayasundera
Poncia
Bryony Hannah
Maid
Eileen Nicholas
María Josefa
Asha Kingsley
Woman / Understudy Poncia / Prudencia
Marcia Lecky
Prudencia
Michael Naylor
Understudy Pepe El Romano / Lace Man
Eliot Salt
Amelia
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Lorca completed this play in 1936, weeks before his assassination; it premiered posthumously and remains his final completed work.
Frecknall previously directed a hit West End 'Streetcar Named Desire'—she specializes in women destroying themselves in hot rooms.
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