Yerma

by Simon Stone after Federico García Lorca

Direction Simon Stone

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National Theatre at Home: Yerma

A Young Vic Production filmed by National Theatre Live.

A young woman is driven to the unthinkable by her desperate desire to have a child.

Set in contemporary London, this radical production of Lorca’s classic tragedy builds with elemental force to a staggering, shocking, climax. Billie Piper plays the title role.

★★★★★ "An extraordinary theatrical triumph" The Times
★★★★★ "Billie Piper makes a shattering Yerma in Simon Stone’s inspired reworking of Lorca" The Observer
★★★★★ “Stunning, searing, unmissable” Mail on Sunday
★★★★★"A shatteringly powerful reinvention of a familiar classic" The Independent

Yerma is currently not available in the USA.

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The Young Vic’s critically-acclaimed productions of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, A Streetcar Named Desire and Yerma are part of the National Theatre Collection – a resource which makes the best of British Theatre available worldwide to libraries, schools, universities and the wider education sector.

Production photography by Johan Persson