La casa de Bernarda Alba

La casa de Bernarda Alba (1936) is Lorca's final and most intense rural tragedy. Following the death of her second husband, Bernarda Alba imposes a suffocating eight-year mourning period on her five daughters, effectively sealing them off from the world.

The play explores the brutal clash between Bernarda’s iron-fisted authority and the vital, irrepressible desires of her daughters—most notably Adela, the youngest. This critical edition by Borja Rodríguez-Gutiérrez deconstructs the mechanisms of power, class prejudice, and the "tyranny of the neighbor's opinion" that govern life in the villages of Spain.

Medically precise in its dramatic execution, every movement and word leads inexorably to a tragic end. The final command of Bernarda—"Silence!"—echoes Lorca's own premonition of the historical silence that would soon descend upon Spain.