Photo Flash: NAATCO's The House of Bernarda Alba

Federico Garcia Lorca's classic play The House of Bernarda Alba, about a household of women repressed by a domineering mother, is now being presented by the Obie Award-winning National Asian American Theatre Company (NAATCO).

The House of Bernarda Alba, adapted and directed by Chay Yew, with acclaimed Obie Award-winning actress Ching Valdes-Aran in the title role, began previews June 1 and opens on June 4 at the Baruch Performing Arts Center (Nagelberg Theater, 55 Lexington Avenue at 25th Street) and playing through June 23. The all Asian-American cast of women features, along with Valdes-Aran, Kati Kuroda, Natsuko Ohama, Ali Ahn, Carmen Herlihy, Maile Holck, Mia Katigbak, Sue Jean Kim, Jeanne Sakata and Sophia Skiles.
  
"Under the artistic leadership of co-founder Mia Katigbak, the National Asian American Theatre Company was founded in 1989 to give Asian American actors, (as well as directors, designers, and technicians) the opportunity to play roles in European and American classical and contemporary works for which they otherwise might not get cast. NAATCO, in fact, first presented its acclaimed production of Falsettoland in 1998 and its equally acclaimed production of Lorca's 1936 The House of Bernarda Alba in 2000," state press materials.

For more information, visit www.NAATCO.org.

Photos by Bruce Johnson

 
Jeanne Sakata, Kati Kuroda, Ching Valdes-Aran and Maile Holck

The company of The House of Bernarda Alba

Mia Katigbak (foreground, in white), Carmen M. Herlihy and Sue Jean Kim (l-r, in black)

Maile Holck and Ching Valdes-Aran

Ching Valdes-Aran and Kati Kuroda

The company