Alba

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Théâtre du Mouvement - Yves Marc

The setting is rural Andalusia, the era the 1930s. When her husband dies, Bernarda Alba shuts up her five daughters at home and imposes an eight-year period of mourning. Merciless and tyrannical, she decides to marry off her eldest daughter. But the suitor instead takes a liking to the youngest sister Adela, whom he meets in secret. In a jealous rage, the other sisters denounce the affair and the seducer is driven out of the village. In desperation, Adela commits suicide.
Yves Marc retains the fundamental dramatic components of de La Maison de Bernarda Alba: seclusion, maternal tyranny, the power of family, hatred, jealousy and female oppression, the religious and moral order. But he also uses movement to express ideas which the text – on account of its social context and familial realism – hints at without ever truly exploring. Through dramatic and metaphorical use of mime and choreography, he puts the characters’ bodies and movements centre stage, throwing Lorca’s dramatic imagery into stark relief. In doing so he evokes the power of forces which, today as in the past, are supposed to be veiled in silence: the pleasure of desire and its opposite. Through the interplay of light and shadow, gestures and movements, bodies as subjects and objects, he gradually constructs a portrait of raging desire, boundless and uncontrollable. Ultimately this is a celebration of freedom and a rejection of its constraints, glorifying the body and casting off its shackles and taboos, be they religious, political, social or cultural.