Fruit Fly Theatre Company, an all-queer punk performance collective, will return to the stage with a reading of La Casa Bernarda Alba by Federico García Lorca.  

Bernarda is a stern matriarch obsessed with family honor. Just widowed, she announces to her five daughters that they will enter a traditional 8 year period of cloistered mourning. Each daughter desires love but with the doors clamped shut, they silently turn to other pursuits. All except one, who manages to have a secret tryst with a scurrilous suitor who is betrothed to the eldest daughter. Discovery results in a tragic climax that is unrelenting in its severity and terror. 

Following a sold out run of "The Wish", Fruit Fly returns with yet another gritty, politically charged work, this time taking on a classic. The reading will feature an all female Latinx cast and direction by Sasha Dashevsky. Founded by immigrants, the company places theatre accessibility at the heart of its work, collaborating with other immigrants to present the reading at a quintessentially punk venue with pay-what-you-can tickets.