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Freedom In Structure: Life Inside The House Of Bernarda Alba, Toby V. Bercovici
Freedom In Structure: Life Inside The House Of Bernarda Alba, Toby V. Bercovici
Masters Theses 1911 - February 2014
In this thesis, I take the reader through the process and particular challenges of directing The House of Bernarda Alba, from choosing a translation, to casting from a pool of mostly undergraduate actors, to staging a show in-the-round. More particularly, I compare my previous work with adaptation to this process of treating the script as a fixed entity.
I also offer a detailed explanation of the exploratory work I did with the actors in building the physicality of the play-world and exploring the relationships of the characters. For this, I drew heavily on Anne Bogart’s composition exercises, found in …