Yerma " review
West Yorkshire Playhouse, LeedsTranslating Lorca is one of the sternest challenges a theatrical practitioner can face. Not only do you need to find an equivalent for the intense, symbolically weighted language, there has to be a context in which the rural folklore and rigid honour codes of southern AndalucÃa make sense.Yerma ("barren" in Spanish) is a case in point: the poetic tragedy of a childless woman who, hav…