TEHRAN – Iranian director Fatemeh Radmanesh plans to stage a play based on Spanish dramatist Federico Garcia Lorca’s “The House of Bernarda Alba”.

The play titled “Virgins of Lemon Garden” will go on stage at Tehran’s Theater House on September 4.

“The House of Bernarda Alba” tells the story of an elderly woman, Bernarda, whose husband has just died, and she asks her five daughters to go through an eight-year mourning period according to her family’s tradition.

Mahnaz Ghamkhar, Marjan Zarei, Fatemeh Neyshaburi and Roshanak Shahbazi are the main members of the cast for the play, which will be on stage until September 21.
 
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