Review: La Maison de Bernarda Alba, Bouffes du Nord, Paris
Sparing us the po-faced shroud that tends to fall over stagings of Lorca’s rural tragedy, Bouffes du Nord’s The House of Bernarda Alba liberates the text with a joyful force and wickedly offbeat humour, maintaining palpable tension and going out literally with a bang. Set in Francoist Andalusia, the play depicts a house of women […]