Why 'Yerma' Should Always Take Place Now - How Simon Stone radically reinvented an 84-year-old play

How Simon Stone radically reinvented an 84-year-old play---Initially, playwright and director Simon Stone wasn't sure Federico García Lorca's Yerma would resonate with modern-day audiences. To him, the 1934 tragedy about a Catholic woman in rural Spain whose longing for a child sends her over the edge seemed woefully out of date. "I was like, 'It's such a backwards view of women that I kind of can't condone do…

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