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What do 1930s rural Spain and modern day Irish Traveller culture have in common? That's the question behind this new adaptation of Frederico García Lorca's

The House of Bernarda Alba

, which relocates the sultry Andalusian tragedy to a contemporary Irish halting site.

This isn't the first time Lorca's drama of matriarchal domination has found an Irish version, but most adapters (Aidan Matthews, Frank McGuinness, Sebastian Barry) have seem more concerned with altering the language than the location. Language may have been director and adaptor Dylan Tighe's starting point as well, but it has led the play towards a broader cultural translation.

First hearing a matching cadence for Lorca's Spanish in Traveller dialects, Tighe (who directed the award-winning No Worst There Is Nonelast year) worked for two years with Traveller activist Catherine Joyce and 11 Traveller women to find an authentic voice for both the play and its performers. A house does not easily become a trailer: a few significant changes have been made to Lorca's blueprint. But, aided by an expert design team, the production ought to find a logic to the move. After all, while this may be the first time Lorca's distracted family have been Travellers, they were hardly ever settled before.

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