Yerma

Yerma

    Author: Federico García Lorca

    First Performance: 1934, Madrid

    Published: 1937

    First English Translation: 1947

    Genre: Trag. in 3 acts, Spanish prose and verse

    Setting: Village in Andalusia, Spain, early 20th c.

    Cast: 6m, 17f, 1 child

Yerma is desperate to have a child, but her husband Juan, though he loves her, will not make her pregnant, preferring instead to work hard on the farm. An old neighbour woman tells Yerma that she will never conceive unless she enjoys sex, and for that she needs the right man. Yerma finds herself strongly attracted to a shepherd, but Juan forces her to remain at home and arranges for his sisters to watch over her. Yerma becomes even more estranged from her husband. Juan buys out the shepherd, who takes his leave from Yerma. Despite her yearnings,...

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