Dame Harriet Walter Appreciation

[ID A woman with short dark hair (Harriet Walter) looks directly at the camera and reaches out towards the lens with her left hand. She wears a black shirt and the backdrop is orange.]

The House of Bernarda Alba

by Alice Birch after Federico García Lorca a co-production with Playful Productions

16 November 2023 — 6 January 2024

Lyttelton Theatre, National Theatre, South Bank, London SE1 9PX

You bring such scandal to my house In the domain of Bernarda Alba, a daughter who disobeys is no longer a daughter. Forced to live under their mother’s tight grip as they mourn their father’s death, can five sisters survive when young Adela dares for passion and freedom? Olivier Award-winner Harriet Walter (Succession) plays the formidable matriarch, guarding her reputation against the rising tide of her family’s desires in this pitch-black drama exploring the consequences of oppressing women. Following Olivier Award-winning revivals of Cabaret and A Streetcar Named Desire, Rebecca Frecknall makes her directorial debut at the National Theatre with Alice Birch’s (Normal People) radical version of Federico García Lorca’s modern masterpiece.

*brb squeeing and flailing*