The House of Bernarda Alba: A Drama About Women in Villages of Spain (Acting Edition for Theater Productions)

About this book

Better never to lay eyes on a man never to have seen one. Ever since I was a child Ive been frightened: the look of men yoking up the oxen picking up sacks of wheat calling to each other their thick voices their thick boots. Every time I passed fear of their hands of their touch. God made me weak and ugly. Its his way of keeping them away. So pronounces one of five unmarried daughters before her elder sister being the richest if least attractive of the bunch is hastily betrothed. The youngest burning with desire begins a passionate clandestine affair with her sisters suitor. Shes spied upon by a jealous sibling with devastating consequences. The House of Bernarda Alba in this new version premieres at the National Theatre London in March 2005.