The Library Theatre at Feltre is seeking 9 women:
5 to play 20’s – 30’s
3 to play 50’s
1 to play 60+ age range
for an upcoming staged reading of The House of Bernarda Alba by Federico Garcia Lorca.

After the death of her second husband, Bernarda Alba, an unpleasant and dominating woman, trying to hold on to tradition, imposes a period of mourning on her household that is to last eight years, as has been traditional in her family. Bernarda has five daughters, aged between 20 and 39, whom she has shielded and controlled to an excessive degree and prohibited from any form of relationship. The mourning period further isolates the daughters, and tension mounts within the household. The deliberate exclusion of any male character from the action is highly significant as it helps to build up the high level of familial tension that is present throughout the play. Pepe "el Romano", the love interest of several of Bernarda's daughters and suitor to one of them, never actually appears on stage.

The play explores themes of repression, passion, traditions, and conformity. Bernarda's cruel tyranny over her daughters foreshadows the stifling nature of Franco's fascist regime, which was to arrive just a few weeks after Lorca finished writing his play. Lorca's association with a number of intellectuals who belonged to the Communist Party of Spain was to result in his assassination shortly after the outbreak of Civil War in July 1936. The play was first performed in 1945.