As the fog closes in, Bernarda Alba’s maid Poncia prays over Adela’s death. The house has plunged into a sea of silence. Poncia talks to herself and also to them: Bernarda Alba and her daughters.
Luis Luque wrote this text using the lines given to the character of Poncia in Federico García Lorca’s work. His deep character analysis recovers Poncia’s lines and turns them into reflection, monologues, dialogues with ghosts and shadows. This provides a new focus within the house. In the original play, we bear witness to a succession of events that here in this Poncia do not happen. She is speaking after the shock caused by Adela’s suicide. It all takes place after her death. Poncia’s language breaks loose in a place where words are prohibited. Poncia talks about suicide, freedom, guilt, class, education, sex and she talks about it with all the strength of a voice that has been mistreated and silenced. Poncia gets her own back on the house’s surviving inhabitants.
The team
Director: Luis Luque.
Cast: Lolita Flores.
Set design: Mónica Boromello.
Lighting design: Paco Ariza.
Original music: Luis Miguel Cobo.
Costume design: Almudena Rodríguez Huertas.
Assistant director: Álvaro Lizarrondo.
Producer: Jesús Cimarro.
A production by Teatro Español and Pentación Espectáculos.
Passes
Prices
13 - 25€ /con descuentos
Friends of Arriaga:25% DISCOUNT.
Groups, young people, over-65s, unemployed, large families and people with 33%+ disability:
20% DISCOUNT.
Theatre professionals:
20% DISCOUNT.
People with disabilities who use wheelchairs:
50% DISCOUNT (in proscenium balcony and one accompanying person)
Duration
70 min.