Yerma

Simon Stone relocates Lorca's play from rural Spain to a contemporary Western metropolis. While Lorca's Yerma is a farmer's wife whose main task it is to give birth to offspring, Stone's Yerma is a successful journalist who has never defined herself by the biological functions of her body.

Yerma

She, a successful journalist, and her husband, John, spend their first night in their new house together. Over champagne, she reveals that she wants to have a baby. John is taken by surprise but he, too, can envisage being a paterfamilias. With this innocuous, ordinary scene in the life of a young couple, a nightmare begins. During the next five years, she will try to become pregnant, invariably without success. She demands that John organises his business trips in such a way that he’s at home during her fertile days and writes intimate accounts about her problems with conceiving on her lifestyle blog. Her desire for a child also strains her relationship with her sister, who has no trouble becoming pregnant but who is suffering from postnatal depression; and with her mother, who actually never wanted children herself and who cannot even begin to comprehend Yerma’s problem. With each passing year, Yerma becomes more obsessed with the idea of having a child until it completely dominates her thoughts — an obsession that turns her once happy life into a tragedy.

Simon Stone relocates Lorca's play from rural Spain to a contemporary Western metropolis. While Lorca's Yerma is the wife of a farmer and lives in a society where a woman's main task is to give birth to offspring, Stone's Yerma is a successful journalist who has never defined herself by the biological functions of her body. Simon Stone, who was a guest at FIND 2018 with his production "Ibsen Huis," is now working with the Schaubühne ensemble for the first time. "Yerma " is a restaging of his acclaimed production at the Young Vic London.

Duration: 120 minutes

Play wih English surtitles on February 21 and 23.

Artists/Collaborators: Schaubühne Berlin

Runtime: Sat, 23/12/2023 to Thu, 04/01/2024

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• Date Saturday, 23/December/2023 18:00 (6 more dates)
• Venue Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz - Saal A
• Address Kurfürstendamm 153, 10709 Berlin-Wilmersdorf
• Price from €38.70

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