[SMU Associate Professor of Theatre/Performance Studies] Margaret Chan, is among the cast of theatre company Wild Rice's House of Bernarda Alba and plays the role of Bernarda's mother, Maria Josefa, in her vortex of insanity. The House Of Bernarda Alba serves up hefty portions of food for thought and wrangles with the vicious circle of oppression as one generation learns its worst traits from another, and conveys, heartbreakingly, how women attempt to chip away at the iron fist of patriarchy but end up kneeling under it. It will be performed at the Drama Centre Theatre, National Library Building, from March 12 to 29, with tickets available from Sistic.