Yerma

"Yerma" is a gripping drama about a modern woman’s all-consuming desire for a child—and the lengths she will go to in pursuit of her dream.

What do you do when you have every opportunity in life, yet your greatest wish remains unfulfilled?

Yerma is a successful city woman in full control of her life. She has never considered having children—until the day she moves into her new townhouse. Suddenly, the desire arises: there is plenty of space, after all. She persuades her partner, and together they try for years to conceive.

As their efforts prove unsuccessful, she restructures their work and private lives around her ovulation cycles. She shares intimate details of their struggle with infertility and family pressures on social media, while her partner gradually loses interest in fertility treatments—and in their relationship. Once, she had never defined her body by its biological function. Now, the deep longing for motherhood consumes her entirely, turning into an obsession.

Resident director Thomas Bendixen stages Australian playwright and director Simon Stone’s contemporary, unflinching drama, inspired by the renowned 1934 tragedy by Spanish poet and playwright Federico García Lorca.

Stone’s "Yerma" premiered at London’s Young Vic Theatre in 2017 to critical acclaim and played to great success.