Yerma
by Federico Garcia Lorca
Adapted by Peter Robel and Thomas J. Samorian
Directed by Peter Robel Produced by Elizabeth Winchester
Played at Heartland Studio on
October 13, 2006 through November 19, 2006.
Federico García Lorca's tragic, dramatic poem in three acts,
Yerma ("Barren"), focuses on a woman's intense need to bear a
child. It was written in 1934 and first performed the same year.
Yerma is one of the three tragic plays which form Lorca's famous
"Rural trilogy." The two other plays in the cycle are
Bodas de sangre (Blood Wedding) and La Casa de Bernarda Alba
(The House of Bernarda Alba). The trilogy similarly emphasize the
submissive position of women who desire freedom in a traditional
society which denies them social or sexual equality.
Yerma deals with the themes of isolation, passion and frustration.
Social conventions of the period also play a large part in the play's
plot, and the work functions as a critique of those mores.
"The heroine holds you in her maniacal grip for
the show's entire 85 minutes. The new translation/adaptation gives
the story a light, unpretentious feel, yet the play's sense of
inexorable tragedy remains."
-- Chicago Reader (Recommended)
Yerma Featured:
Kristy Hartsgrove, Alanda Coon, Matthew Pierce, Kevin Bensley, Carolyn Jenson, Kyla Brundage,
Michelle Kelley, Sara McCarthy,
Elizabeth Hope Morgan, and Kate Froehlich.
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