Homestead by Steven Dykes
Based on Lorca's La Casa de Bernarda Alba

“There's always been wolves come to worry the flock … Just as the Lord tends to the weakest lamb, so the parent tends to the weakest child. And so I tell you, my children, not to be afraid, not to fret about the future, not to pay it no mind. For you know God Himself has decreed your path for all eternity. All the things that come to pass from the greatest crisis to the smallest happiness. And therein lies your comfort.”

 “But why do we have to brick up the windows, Mama?”

Following the death of their father and governed by their mother's Primitive Baptist faith, the five Beckman daughters face a lengthy confinement within the walls of their remote Texan homestead. The youngest daughter's passionate defiance of religious convention, however, soon unleashes the pent up jealousy and sexual frustration of the all female household.

Set in the American South of the turbulent 1950s, Shady Dolls' latest offering is a thrilling new version of Lorca's masterpiece of desire and betrayal.

In keeping with the lush design and evocative soundtrack of the company's wildly exuberant Erotica Project , Homestead captures a world on the brink of change. A fatal collision of frontier values and post-war dreams. Communal hymns and boys with cars. Church elders and Elvis Presley.

Past reviews for The Erotica Project

“Vibrantly written and buoyantly performed…six brave actresses tackle their explicit material with a gleeful verve…tough minded and (always a bonus) impressively supple.”
The Sunday Times
 
“The entire company brings just the right note of irony, coaxing comedy and pathos...spend the evening with the Erotica Project, you'll have fun.”The Evening Standard

“Superbly performed and directed…well written and insightful”
The Morning Star