Lyttelton theatre, LondonAdapted by Alice Birch and directed by Rebecca Frecknall, this is a stylised study in control and daughterly disobedience 'To be born a woman is the worst punishment in the world," we are told in Federico GarcÃa Lorca's 1936 play, the last of his rural trilogy which follows a house of unmarried women ruled by an iron-willed mother. Bernarda (Harriet Walter) is an almighty authoritarian, po…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:24AM on November 29, 2023