Productive Contradictions in The House of Bernarda Alba TNT-El Vacie Version

Natália da Silva Perez

Abstract


The House of Bernarda Alba TNT-El Vacie Version (La casa de Bernarda Alba versión TNT-El Vacie) is an award-winning adaptation of the play by Federico García Lorca that premiered in 2009.1 Featuring eight first-time actresses of Roma ethnicity from an impoverished community in Seville, the production came about as a result of an acting workshop organised at Territorios Nuevos Tiempos International Centre for Theatre Research (TNT). One evening, the students of the workshop were invited to watch a professional play at TNT. It was then that Rocío Montero Maya, who would later play Bernarda Alba, first expressed her desire to make a real show just like the one they had seen. That was the impetus for the production of The House of Bernarda Alba that would tour Spain and abroad under the direction of Pepa Gamboa.2


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