Audiences entering the small theater find the players, all women, already onstage, seated, motionless, barefoot, encapsulated in a sort of glass box.  

Antonella Scogna portrays Adela in Oakland Theater Project’s “The House of Bernarda Alba.” (Ben Krantz Studio via Bay City News)

The stunning set design by Sam Fehr beautifully represents the prison in which the characters in Oakland Theater Project’s dazzling “The House of Bernarda Alba,” Federico Garcia Lorca’s drama adapted by playwright Chay Yew and choreographed by Bear Graham, are trapped.

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