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Yerma " review by Alfred Hickling

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 Andalucía make sense.Yerma ("barren" in Spanish) is a case in point: the poetic tragedy of a childless woman who, hav…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 2:12pm on March 14, 2011

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