The House of Bernada Alba

By Federico García Lorca
Adapted by Karen Vickery with the assistance of Andrea Garcia
Presented by Chaika Theatre

Feel this silence? A storm is brewing in every room. The day it bursts, we’ll all be swept away!

Considered the first play to be written for a cast of women only, The House of Bernarda Alba is based on the mysterious black clad women who lived next door to the Lorca family estate. With their father dead, the Alba household is imprisoned in mourning.

Angustias has inherited a fortune and is engaged to the local heartthrob but, as tensions rise and tempers flare, will any of them break free from the shackles of societal expectations?

Federico García Lorca is best known for his three brilliant tragedies (Blood Wedding, Yerma and The House of Bernarda Alba), wrought from the raw material of Roman Catholicism and lyric Latin poetry, rural Spanish folklore and women’s yearning, rage and insight.

A poet and a visual artist, Lorca chronicled a Spain in transformation. He is perhaps most famous outside Spain (where his work was banned for years) for dying absurdly young, executed by a fascist firing squad in 1936. His body has never been found.

Details

When: 19 March – 29 March 2025
Where: ACT Hub at Causeway Hall

Performances

• 19 March 7:30pm
• 20 March 7:30pm
• 21 March 7:30pm
• 22 March 2pm
• 22 March 7:30pm
• 23 March 5pm
• 26 March 7:30pm
• 27 March 7:30pm
• 28 March 7:30pm
• 29 March 2pm
• 29 March 7:30pm

Ticket prices

• First in best dressed: $30
• Under 30yo: $35
• Concession: $40
• Adult: $45

Cast

Bernarda – Zsuzsi Soboslay
Poncia – Christina Falsone
Lucia, the maid – Winsome Ogilvie
Angustias – Ylaria Rogers
Martirio – Yanina Clifton
Amelia – Maxine Beaumont
Adela – Karina Hudson
Prudencia – Andrea Garcia
Maria Josefa – Alice Ferguson
Magdalena – TBC

Director – Karen Vickery
Voice and text – Sarah Chalmers
Stage Manager & Lighting Design – Sophia Carlton
Costume – Fiona Leach
Marketing – Seb Winter
Sound – Nev Pye