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Theatre

What a muddle: The House of Bernarda Alba, at the Lyttelton Theatre, reviewed

9 December 2023

9:00 AM

9 December 2023

9:00 AM

The House of Bernarda Alba

Lyttelton Theatre, until 6 January 2024

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Green, green, green. Everything on stage is the same shade of eau de Nil in the NT’s version of Federico García Lorca’s classic, The House of Bernarda Alba. All the furniture and props are green. The mirrors, the walls, the crucifixes, the clocks and even the bucket and the knife-rack bear the same queasy pigment.

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