Lorca work in Gozo

A Maltese version, Id-Dar ta' Bernarda Alba, of a Federico Garcia Lorca masterpiece is being presented at the Don Bosco Oratory, in Victoria on Saturday at 7.30 p.m.

The play, being presented in collaboration with the Gozo School of Drama, Nadur, was Lorca's final play and deals with injustice, lack of freedom and sexual and social equality.

This powerful drama of seduction, betrayal and sibling rivalry is a study in family relationships under the strain of culturally and socially imposed sexual taboos.

It is a critique of the status of women in male-dominated Spanish society.

The recently widowed Bernarda Alba demands strict obedience from her five love-starved daughters.

She announces that as custom requires during the eight-year period of mourning, the daughters are locked into this spotless and airless house.

Lorca wrote the play two months before he was murdered in 1936 but it was not produced until 1945 in Argentina and not until 1964 in Spain.