At the end of April, students from this year’s Prospect Theatre Company, our second year drama enrichment group, performed their stunning production of Lorca’s Spanish tragedy, The House of Bernarda Alba.
Originally set in Franco's Fascist Spain of the 1930's, the plot centres on the events in a household in Andalusia during a period of mourning, in which the matriarch Bernarda Alba wields total control over the lives of her five daughters.
The all-female cast worked to adapt the play to suggest a more modern context, looking at the theme of feminism and how women often feel trapped by their own societal prejudice. Their interpretation was extremely imaginative, everything from the set design of living trees, representing the unstoppable forces of nature, through to the dance sequences they choreographed to support the action, was their own. A truly memorable occasion.
