La Maison de Bernarda Alba
Federico García Lorca, Thibaud Croisy
A house in Andalusia, an authoritarian mother, five daughters to marry off, and all around the Francoist countryside, threatening. Lorca wrote here one of the only major plays whose characters are all women. Thibaud Croisy delivers a new translation and a staging with ten performers: he dissects the effects of withdrawal on language, and makes audible everything that a closed-door world holds of desire, violence, and thirst for freedom.
Biographie(s)
Thibaud Croisy
Thibaud Croisy writes and directs. His works depict bodies that are constrained or confined, struggling to win their freedom—and undoubtedly their very lives as well. He directed a documentary film on the incarceration of adolescents in juvenile detention centers (Quartier mineur) and writes regularly for magazines and publishers. His previous play, L’Homosexuel ou la difficulté de s’exprimer by Copi, was presented at the TCi in October 2022.
www.thibaud-croisy.com
Distribution
Text by Federico García Lorca - New translation by Thibaud Croisy and Laurey Braguier (L’Arche éditeur) - Directed by Thibaud Croisy - Set design by Sallahdyn Khatir - Lighting design by Caty Olive - Costume design by Angèle Micaux - Sound design by Manuel Coursin - Artistic collaboration by Élise Simonet – Starring Elsa Bouchain (Magdalena), Charlotte Clamens (Bernarda), Céline Fuhrer (Amelia), Michèle Gurtner (Angustias), Emmanuelle Lafon (Martirio), Helena de Laurens (Adela), Frédéric Leidgens (La Poncia), Lucie Rouxel (The Maid), Laurence Roy (María Josefa), Hélène Schwaller (Prudencia) - Stage Manager: Thomas Cany - Sound Engineer: Romain Vuillet - Stage Supervisor: Maureen Cléret - Production and Distribution: Le Bureau des Écritures Contemporaines (Claire Nollez and Romain Courault)
Action(s) spécifique(s)
Screening of the documentary Quartier mineur (2025) by Thibaud Croisy, with the director in attendance, at the L’Escurial cinema.
Thibaud Croisy is also leading several workshops: Students from the École Duperré are invited to participate in a scenographic dialogue with him and set designer Sallahdyn Khatir, while students from Lycée Rodin take part in theater and Spanish reading-aloud workshops with Céline Fuhrer. These workshops will result in several performances, either on the theater’s stages or at partner institutions.
Production
La Maison de Bernarda Alba premiered on March 4, 2026, at La Filature, Mulhouse’s National Theater
The play’s script is published by L’Arche and available at the theater’s bookstore.
https://www.arche-editeur.com/livre/la-maison-de-bernarda-alba-772
The show received the Georges-Lerminier Prize from the Critics' Union in 2026.
Produced by Association TC
With support from the Hermès Corporate Foundation
Co-produced by T2G Théâtre de Gennevilliers, National Drama Center; La Filature, Mulhouse National Theater; Tnba – Théâtre national Bordeaux Aquitaine; Le Quai, National Drama Center of Angers; Les Bords de Scènes – Grand-Orly Seine Bièvre
With support from the Île-de-France Regional Directorate of Cultural Affairs – Ministry of Culture
Project funded by the Île-de-France Region
With the artistic participation of the Jeune Théâtre National
With the support of Adami
Special thanks to Zirlib
Théâtre de la Cité internationale × Fondation d'entreprise Hermès
