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Yerma is the name of a married woman who wishes to have children like all women around her. When she finds out that her husband cannot give her the child she yearns for she despairs. She does not resign herself to fate and resists the idea of remaining imprisoned by a sterility for which she claims no responsibility; from then on she will tread a path that will lead to her personal tragedy. What she cannot build with words she makes real by her own two hands and the sacrifice of her body.
In an adaptation of the poem by Federico Garcia Lorca, João Garcia Miguel brings to the stage the suffering of impotence in multiple dimensions. But it's from beyond the frontiers of impotence, from an unknown territory, that the inner violence of the characters springs forth. Yerma and Juan, her husband, are moved into mutual destruction in an allegory of the end of all things. This allegory is a game of death that arises as a gesture of self-defence against the fatality and the impossibility of making your dreams come true.
Yerma is the name of a married woman who wishes to have children like all women around her. When she finds out that her husband cannot give her the child she yearns for she despairs. She does not resign herself to fate and resists the idea of remaining imprisoned by a sterility for which she claims no responsibility; from then on she will tread a path that will lead to her personal tragedy. What she cannot build with words she makes real by her own two hands and the sacrifice of her body.
In an adaptation of the poem by Federico Garcia Lorca, João Garcia Miguel brings to the stage the suffering of impotence in multiple dimensions. But it's from beyond the frontiers of impotence, from an unknown territory, that the inner violence of the characters springs forth. Yerma and Juan, her husband, are moved into mutual destruction in an allegory of the end of all things. This allegory is a game of death that arises as a gesture of self-defence against the fatality and the impossibility of making your dreams come true.
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Text Federico García Lorca Stage direction João Garcia Miguel With David Pereira Bastos (in place of the actor Miguel Borges) and Sara Ribeiro Music Lula's Video Miguel Lopes Costumes Miguel Moreira Production Raquel Matos Special guest Manuel Gomez Plaza
© Jorge Reis
© Jorge Reis