Yerma

Every woman has the blood for four or five children and when she doesn't have it, it turns into poison. That's what's going to happen to me." Inspired by an Andalusian pilgrimage where sterile women flock, Yerma is a human drama: frustration, loneliness, jealousy, disenchantment and social conventions lead the main character to commit the irreparable to finally conquer freedom.

Located between Blood Wedding and A Casa de Bernarda Alba, Yerma is transported by the beautiful metaphorical writing of Garcia Lorca who composes a tragedy of frustration, mixing lyrical and baroque. The whole play revolves around fertility: in this first half of the 20th century. As in all the centuries that preceded her, the woman is first and foremost a womb:
“We women only have one thing to do: children and take care of them.”
Yerma's husband, Juan, however, abandons his wife while she dreams of having a child. All village life, all social life, revolves around motherhood. “Furthermore, in this Andalusia so strongly marked by Islam and strict Catholicism, having children is the sign of God's election and the manifestation of his blessing” (writes Albert Bensoussan, who translates the play and signs the critical device).
The frustration developed by Yerma, the shame she suffers and the carnal desire she feels for another villager will lead her to the murder of her husband.

ARTISTIC AND TECHNICAL SHEET 

Directed by: Alexandre Païta
Text: Federico Garcia Lorca
Adaptation: Michelle Bercet
With: Sonia Vieira Cardoso, Pat Lagadji, Youri Hanne, Daniela Sepulveda, Jean – Baptiste Blondel, Stephanie Monastesse, Marie-Camille Courvoisier, Mileine Homsy, Antoine Bottiroli, Maé Mottaz
Video design: Daniela Sepulveda
Creation of Light: René Donze

Host by Teatro da Garagem

With support of Câmara Municipal de Lisboa, EGEAC, Junta de Freguesia de Santa Maria Maior
Financed by Direção-Geral das Artes, Governo de Portugal | Ministério da Cultura

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