![]() ![]() ![]() The tensions between the women in this matriarchy reflect Federico García Lorca’s scenario for La casa de Bernarda Alba (which Kenneth MacMillan turned into the one-act ballet, Las Hermanas) and the decades-long unrequited love between Tita and Pedro brings to mind the similarly long, unconsummated love between Florentino and Fermino in Gabriel García Marquez’ Love in the Time of Cholera. Among several side stories, Tita’s other sister Gertrudis (Anna Rose O’Sullivan) elopes with the revolutionary leader, Juan Alejandrez (Cesar Corrales) and a Texan doctor, John Brown (Matthew Ball) proposes marriage to Tita. Tita and Pedro Muzquiz ( Marcelino Sambé) share an unrequited love, bursting with unspent passion, and when Pedro’s request for Tita’s hand in marriage is brutally rejected by Elena, he accepts instead her suggestion of marrying the elder sister, Rosaura (Mayara Magri), in order to remain close to his one true love. It focuses especially on the fate of the youngest daughter, Tita ( Francesca Hayward), who – according to tradition – must never marry to be free to look after her mother in old age. ![]() Esquivel’s moving story concerns the all-female De la Garza family during the Mexican Civil War in the early years of the 20th century: three sisters are ruled over by the unforgiving Mama Elena ( Laura Morera) and served by their 85 year-old cook, Nacha (Christina Arestis) and the family’s maid, Chencha (Isabella Gasparini). ![]()
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