Bernard Alba's Household
5 girls forced into a mourning period of 8 years by their rigid mother and how that pushes them into deprivation and isolation
an adaptation of a play by Federico Garcia Lorca. After her husband's death, Bernarda Alba imposes eight years mourning period upon her household as the tradition runs in her family. In a household of 5 girls their mother and their grandma the tension and the deprivation arise as the mourning period isolate them from the rest of the village and deprive them of any male contact.
- Year: 1970
- Country: Egypt
- Genre: Drama
- Studio: المسرح القومي المصري
- Keyword: stage play, مسرحية, theatre, adaptation, play, controlling parent, sisters relationship, female centric
- Director: Fattoh Nashaty, Mahmoud Moursy
- Cast: Amina Rizk, Soheir El-Bably, Ehsan Sherif, Ragaa Hussein, Malak Elgamal, Salwa Mahmoud
