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La Maison de Bernarda
For Mats Ek, dance is one form of theater and some of his works are inspired by themes borrowed from theater. La Maison de Bernarda (the house of Bernarda) is taken from the play of the same name by Federico Garcia Lorca.
Source: Biennale de la danse 1986
La Maison de Bernarda – the house of Bernarda(1936), a drama in 3 acts by Federico Garcia Lorca.
Posthumous publication from 1945.
Written in 1936, just before the start of the Spanish Civil War, this play takes place in a small village in southern Spain following the funeral of Bernarda Albas second husband. After the mourners depart, the tyrannical matriarch announces to her five daughters that their period of mourning will last eight years. Obsessed with family honor, Bernarda rules the household with an iron fist, but all of her daughters secretly harbor a passion for Pepe el Romano, the handsomest man in the village.
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