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...Birnbaum has complemented this new translation with “inventive staging, unique takes on character, and skillful incorporation of sound and dance,” according to Wenger...
...Birnbaum has chosen a recent translation of the play by British playwright David Hare, and is unsure whether this particular translation, published in March 2005, has been been performed in the United States before. Hare’s language, according to Birnbaum, is much more contemporary...
...play, one of Lorca’s best known, is a “vehemently anti-fascist allegory,” according to Birnbaum. The play’s originality, however, lies in the its feminine focus...
...It’s unusual for plays at Harvard, and beyond, to have a fully female cast,” Birnbaum explains. Birnbaum, who went to an all-girls high school, was attracted to the play because of this aspect...
...Bernarda Alba” is, in fact, a “social experiment,” according to Birnbaum, asking what would happen were men to disappear. Set in rural Spain, the cloistered home of matron Bernarda Alba, played by Alexandra C. Palma ’08, is rife with internal female conflict and external societal tensions. The cast, which is comprised of nine female actors, includes Ellen C. Quigley ’07 as Poncia, a servant, and Olga I. Zhulina ’09, as the fiery youngest daughter Adela...