AUDITIONS for THE HOUSE OF BERNARDA ALBA by FREDERICO LORCA

LORCA's THE HOUSE OF BERNARDA ALBA  is a powerful drama, originally written in Spanish by the world renown playwright
Frederico Garcia Lorca. Centering around the widow of Bernarda Alba, who has ordered an eight year moratorium for her 
daughters forbidding relationships with men. The cast is all female, of different ages. 

Please prepare this poem for the audition:

				Wounds of love
			by Frederico Garcia Lorca
 

                    This light, this flame that devours,

                    this grey country that surrounds me,

                    this pain from a sole idea,

                    this anguish of the sky, earth and hour,

 
                    this lament of blood that now adorns

                    a lyre with no pulse, lubricious torch,

                    this weight of sea that breaks on me,

                    this scorpion that lives inside my breast,

 
                    are a garland of love, bed of the wounded,

                    where dreamlessly, I dream of your presence

                    among the ruins of my sunken breast.

 
                    And though I seek the summit of discretion

                    your heart grants me a valley stretched below,

                    with hemlock and passion of bitter wisdom.


Sides from the script will be provided to read.   

Auditions will be held on:

Saturday March 3rd:  11:00 am to 1:00 pm
Sunday March 4th:  11:00 am to 1:00 pm

at:
The Columbus Civic Theater
3837 Indianola Ave
Columbus, OH 43214

Rehearsals begin on March 24th, typically Sundays through Wednesday evenings with a Saturday afternoon rehearsal until the 
week prior to opening, which is Thursday April 26th. The show plays every Thursday, Friday, Saturday at 8pm and Sundays 
at 2pm until May 20th.

Each ensemble member is paid a $150.00 honorarium and receives up to three comp tickets to the production.  

Questions may be addressed to the director, Richard Albert, at richard@columbuscivic.org