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Arts at ASU: “The House of Bernarda Alba”

Friday, April 25, 2014 8 p.m.
Repeats daily (to May 3, 2014)

The greatest of modern Spanish tragedies is realistic and lyrical. Bernarda is a stern matriarch obsessed with family honor. Just widowed, she announces to her five daughters that they will enter a traditional 8 year period of cloistered mourning.

Each daughter desires love but with the doors clamped shut, they silently turn to other pursuits. All except one, who manages to have a secret tryst with a scurrilous suitor who is betrothed to the eldest daughter. Discovery results in a tragic climax that is unrelenting in its severity and terror.

“Extremely absorbing…. Exciting, vigorous, and memorable.” - Variety

Location

ASU Modular Theatre, Carr Education-Fine Arts Building, 2602 Dena Drive