Federico García Lorca: La Casa de Bernarda Alba

Ballroom Marfa is pleased to present La Casa de Bernarda Alba by Federico García Lorca, directed by Richard Maxwell, for two performances on April 10 and 11, 2026 at Bull Room in Marfa, Texas. The production is presented by New York City Players and developed with New York City Players’ Incoming Theater Division, a program dedicated to creating space for newcomers to develop performance work. The play will be performed in Spanish with English supertitles. First staged by Maxwell with the Incoming Theater Division in New York City in June 2024, where it ran for three sold-out weeks at 101 Greenwich, the production now comes to Marfa in the context of the U.S./Mexican borderlands. Presented in Spanish, the production speaks to Far West Texas’s deep-rooted Spanish-speaking and Latinx communities, affirming the importance of seeing one’s language and culture reflected on a professional stage. The Marfa presentation will feature members of the original ensemble. In addition to the NYC-based cast, select roles will be cast in Marfa through local casting. In Lorca’s play La Casa de Bernarda Alba, Bernarda Alba, forever concerned with keeping up appearances, runs her household with an iron fist. As the play opens, she has just lost her second husband and imposes eight years of mourning on her five daughters and locks up the house. She is about to marry off her eldest daughter Angustias to Pepe el Romano; meanwhile, Pepe’s secret relationship with the youngest daughter, Adela, ignites a tragic unraveling. Though the play lays bare the forces that shape and constrain women’s lives, Lorca’s drama famously contains only female characters, making the house itself a pressure chamber of power, longing, and surveillance. Maxwell’s work often embraces the directness and unpredictability of performers with varied levels of stage experience, an approach that aligns with the Incoming Theater Division’s ensemble-led practice. As Maxwell has said, “I like how my words come through a…