Yerma from the Young Vic. intense, powerful, an impeccable adaptation of Lorca to the London stage.
photo Johan Persson
Yerma in London, as the subtitle states, is a contemporary adaptation of Federico García Lorca’s Yerma, a work by one of the great 20th Century Spanish playwrights. It was written in 1934, two years before the tragic assassination of the writer by Franco’s forces. Director Simon Stone’s reworking of the play sets it in an Expressionist design environment where the young couple, (she and John as they are mentioned in the cast) are enclosed in a glass case that creates a mirror effect for the audience. …