Word: bernarda
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...sultry tragedy of village life, it centers around the bigoted, domineering Widow Bernarda Alba. After the funeral of her second husband, she shuts her five daughters off from the outside world for eight years of mourning...
Envenomed by repression, all the sisters fall madly in love with Pepe El Romano, who is engaged to the eldest, Angustias. Night after night the youngest, Adela, slips outside to make love to Pepe in a barn. The ugliest sister, Martirio, informs Bernarda. In an outburst of fury the widow shoots Pepe. Adela hangs herself...
Lest the censor interfere, La Carátula did not make any public announcement of the show. But word seeped through the cafes. The club's membership quickly expanded. When the curtain rose on a simple cardboard backdrop depicting Bernarda Alba's village home, a capacity audience was on hand. In the front row sat the supreme censor himself, bespectacled Garcia Espina, Director General of the Theater and Cinema...