In Federico Garcia Lorca's 1934 poetic verse play, Yerma (the word means "barren" in Spanish) and her husband Juan want to have children. Beyond their desire to have a family, Yerma knows that her ...

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Plays can be read many ways, especially when they’re as poetically abstract as Federico García Lorca’s “Yerma.” His 1934 play about a woman scorned for being childless is often interpreted to be a ...

Anyone wanting to brush up on Federico Garcia Lorca by seeing a rare staging of his 1934 play should avoid “Yerma,” which opened Tuesday at the Park Avenue Armory. Anyone wanting to see a Lifetime ...

To gauge the intensity of “Yerma,” Spanish director José Luis Arellano García’s latest collaboration with Gala Hispanic Theatre, consider that the production doesn’t even pause at intermission. About ...

”Yerma,” now on view in an enterprising staging by the Blueprint Theatre Group, is the middle work in Federico Garcia Lorca`s passionate trilogy of Spanish peasant tragedies. Like its better-known ...

When the curtain rises on Paul Bowles' "Yerma," based on the play of the same name by Federico García Lorca, it reveals the titular character, played by Chelsea Basler, asleep on a chair. A man and a ...

Nasim Adabi and Neda Shahrokhi will co-direct the play named “Night/Exterior/Yerma”, which is about Yerma, a woman who fights for her dream, not giving up due to prejudice. The Yerma story and real ...

When Simon Stone’s adaptation of Yerma first opened at London’s Young Vic in 2016, it was met with deafening praise. Stone adapted the play from nearly 80-year-old source materials, but by setting the ...

“Yerma,” says playwright Melinda Lopez, is an epic tale of a singular woman. In Federico García Lorca’s play, we watch the title character move through her life in the country, longing to become a ...

Yerma has been nominated for several awards, including Outstanding Director of a Play for Simon Stone and Outstanding Sound Design in a Play for Stefan Gregory at the Drama Desk Awards. Lizzie Clachan ...