One Directors Interpretaion of Lorcas Bernarda Alba as expressed to his colaborators
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The House of Bernarda Alba at a LORT theatre: Lorca's biography, political and sexual-political viewpoints, the historical context in which the play was written, and the fact that it is an allegory on fascism, are all invaluable contexts useful in understanding and bringing the play to life richly. The danger in crafting this production, however, is the temptation to be true to everything but the text, to be over-political. In other words, to do a play that Lorca didn't write. While the play deals with fascism, Lorca wrote a play about struggle for control in a domestic situation, about women in the absence of men, about the lack of freedom to love whom one may in the manner one so chooses. We will need our dramaturg to help us strike the right balance of being true to the text and its context. To the company -The Dramatic Action of the piece: "To gain or maintain control." This action applies to all of the characters in the piece, Bernarda, the daughters, the servants. All of the political stuff isn't actionable. The actors and I will use this little phrase as a guide to their moment-to-moment beat work and finding unique super-objectives that tie into this notion. To the Company -Theme: "Oppression and tyranny -religious, political, domestic, or otherwise causes internal rot and despair...