Set in a small Andalusian village just before the outbreak of The Spanish Civil War, The House of Bernarda Alba follows the well-to-do Bernarda and her five unmarried daughters in the days just after her husband’s death. Trapped inside Bernarda’s white-walled house by a combination of their mother’s tyranny, their society’s restrictive gender roles, and their lack of anywhere else to go, the five daughters struggle to imagine futures for themselves and start to fight over the one eligible bachelor left in town, the womanizing Pepe el Romano.
The House of Bernarda Alba will be performed in the Keiter Center for the Arts. Tickets are available at walnuthillarts.org/alba.