THEATRE “The House of Bernarda Alba” Play by García Lorca at Instituto Cervantes, 48, Hanuman Road, Connaught Place > 6:30pm on 27th August 2016

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Time : 6:30 pm Add to Calendar 27/08/2016 18:30 27/08/2016 20:00 Asia/Kolkata THEATRE “The House of Bernarda Alba” Play by García Lorca Event Page : http://www.delhievents.com/2016/08/theatre-house-of-bernarda-alba-play-by.html Instituto Cervantes, 48, Hanuman Road, Connaught Place (CP), New Delhi - 110001 DD/MM/YYYY

Duration : 1 hour 30 mins

Entry : Free (Seating on First-Come First-Served Basis)

Venue : Instituto Cervantes, 48, Hanuman Road, Connaught Place (CP), New Delhi - 110001
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Metro : Nearest Metro Station - 'Rajiv Chowk' (Yellow Line and Blue Line)

Area : Connaught Place (CP)

Event Description : THEATRE “The House of Bernarda Alba” Play by García Lorca 

About the play: 
The House of Bernarda Alba is a play by the Spanish dramatist Federico García Lorca. Commentators have often grouped it with Blood Wedding and Yerma as a "rural trilogy". Lorca did not include it in his plan for a "trilogy of the Spanish earth" (which remained unfinished at the time of his murder). Lorca described the play in its subtitle as a drama of women in the villages of Spain. The House of Bernarda Alba was Lorca's last play, completed on 19 June 1936, two months before Lorca's death during the Spanish Civil War. The play centers on the events of a house in Andalusia during a period of mourning, in which Bernarda Alba (aged 60) wields total control over her five daughters Angustias (39 years old), Magdalena (30), Amelia (27), Martirio, (24), and Adela (20). The housekeeper (La Poncia) and Bernarda's elderly mother (María Josefa) also live there. The deliberate exclusion of any male character from the action helps build up the high level of sexual tension that is present throughout the play. Pepe "el Romano", the love interest of Bernarda's daughters and suitor of Angustias, never appears on stage. The play explores themes of repression, passion, and conformity, and inspects the effects of men upon women..

About the playwright: 
Federico del Sagrado Corazón de Jesús García Lorca, known as Federico García Lorca (5 June 1898 – 19 August 1936) was a Spanish poet, playwright, and theatre director. García Lorca achieved international recognition as an emblematic member of the Generation of '27. The Generation of '27
was a group consisting of mostly poets who introduced the tenets of European movements (such as
symbolism, futurism, and surrealism) into Spanish literature. He was executed by Nationalist forces at the beginning of the Spanish Civil War.

Sobre los intérpretes:
Los Hispanófilos is an association of Spanish Scholars in India based in Kolkata, to promote familiarity with & cultivation of Spanish language and literature in India, through the translation and
publishing of works by Spanish and Latin American authors and poets into the Indian languages, as well as organize seminars on topics related to Hispanic literature.  Estate al día de nuestra activida

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