Yerma " review
Hull Truck theatreYerma is not an outwardly complex play. Lorca's drama has a folkloric quality that can be summed up by a familiar children's rhyme: the farmer wants a wife, the wife wants a child. Yet what happens after several barren summers when the wife is still trying, but the farmer is not trying nearly hard enough? Most interpretations focus on the anguish of Yerma's continued failure to conceive in an oppres…