The cackling cries of Maria Josepha arising from the floorboards were the audience’s first notes of introduction to The House of Bernarda Alba. The howls of Maria Josepha, the old mad mother of title character Bernarda Alba, sets the tone for the rest of the night’s acts: a night defined by desperation for freedom and a madness derived from deprivation and sexual tension. Based on a new adaptation, by Chay Yew, of Federico Garcia Lorca’s 1936 work, The House of Bernarda Alba- directed by Granada Artist-in-Residence Juliette Carrillo- was a well crafted, well performed, presentation of a house forced into mourning by its domineering matriarch, Bernarda Alba. The play centers on the plight

Through March 18, the University of California, Davis Department of Theatre and Dance presents, “The House of Bernarda Alba,” directed by Granada Artist-in-Residence, Juliette Carrillo. Based on the work of Federico Garcia Lorca, “The House of Bernarda Alba,” is the story of five daughters forced into an eight-year mourning period after the death of their mother’s second husband. Confined and isolated, the daughters struggle to find escape from their mother’s domineering rule. Director Juliette Carrillo, whose work on “Lydia” was praised by The New York Times, took the time from a busy schedule to answer a few questions about directing and the elements and themes that shape “The House of

FOR ALL WHO MISSED OR REQUESTED THE SHOW AGAIN, THIS IS FOR YOU! Fascinating and Dramatically Compelling, this Eloquent Play depicts the supposed Meeting of two of the most important men of modern times: Malcolm X and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Differing in their Philosophies, but alike in their mutual respect, the two men debate their varying approaches to the same grave Social problems, both prepared to die for their beliefs but neither aware of how soon their assassins’ bullets would await them. The story takes place in a suite high up in a Harlem Hotel room where Malcolm X and his bodyguard Rashad are resting before Malcolm X’s fateful speech at the Audubon Ballroom. Malcolm X has r