La casa de Bernarda Alba

‘The widow Bernarda Alba holds her daughters captive and prevents them from loving. This pithy sentence provides the argument for Federico García Lorca's ultimate masterpiece - The House of Bernarda Alba - written two months before his execution by Franco's regime: a black play that captures Spanish society at its most claustrophobic and closed. Enzo Verdet has chosen to revisit this tragedy of confinement, violence and desire, which has affected three generations of women, with the inmates of the Avignon-Le Pontet prison. The director has taken on the task of reversing genres and short-circuiting eras, bringing together these women from 1930s Andalusia and these men caught up in the prison world, all united by the same thirst for freedom.

Interview with Enzo Verdet

With Amari, Franck, Kamel, Marco, K., Salim and Hélène July
Text Frederico Garcia Lorca
Adaptation and direction Enzo Verdet
Artistic collaboration Hélène July

Production Festival d'Avignon
With the support of the Ministry of the Interior Fonds interministériel de prévention pour la délinquance, Ministry of Culture Drac Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, Service pénitentiaire d'insertion et de probation de Vaucluse