Faber and Faber, 2019

Faber Drama

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Acts: 3, Scenes: 8, Roles: Total (11), Female (5), Male (5), Unassigned (1)

... A bride promised. A blood vow broken. The vengeance of a village released. I want you green. Green wind, green branches. Boat on the ocean. Horse on the mountain...

Faber and Faber, 2005

Faber Drama

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Acts: 3, Roles: Total (18), Female (18), Male (0), Unassigned (0)

...Finished just two months before the author's murder on 18 August 1936 by a gang of Franco's supporters, The House of Bernarda Alba is now accepted as Lorca's great masterpiece of love and loathing. Five daughters live...

Nick Hern Books, 2010

Drama Classics

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Acts: 3, Scenes: 6, Roles: Total (28), Female (20), Male (8), Unassigned (0)

...Federico García Lorca's Yerma is a poetic drama about a childless woman living in rural Spain, and her desperate longing to conceive a child. It was first performed in the Teatro Español, Madrid, on 29 December 1934...

Oberon Books, 2011

Oberon Modern Plays

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Acts: 3, Scenes: 7, Roles: Total (15), Female (13), Male (2), Unassigned (0)

...In a remote Spanish village Yerma, a woman of full of life and passion, longs for a child but is unable to conceive. This compelling and elemental tale of a woman's quest for a child taps into some of the most universal themes of theatre -...