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Yerma " review by Clare Brennan

Hull Truck, HullThe poster (weirdly featuring an image of a faceless young woman wearing nothing but her underwear and sheathed in see-through plastic) proclaims in big letters: "Yerma by Federico García Lorca". What you get on the stage, however, is not the Spanish playwright's 1934 "Tragic Poem in Three Acts and Six Scenes". Instead, "backstories" of the childless couple, Yerma and Juan, are inserted (a tediousl…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06PM on October 29, 2011

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