To gauge the intensity of "Yerma," Spanish director José Luis Arellano GarcÃa's latest collaboration with GALA Hispanic Theatre, consider that the production doesn't even pause at intermission. About halfway through this version of Federico GarcÃa Lorca's 1934 tragedy, a haunting stage tableau evokes an unhappy household meal. The play's anguished, childless heroine, Yerma, is slumped on a metal table. Her hus…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:07PM on September 15, 2015