Description

Yerma is married to an honest man, but her life runs with blood. Written in 1934, the play tells the story of a childless woman in a time when women's value came entirely from bearing children. Her desperate desire for motherhood becomes an obsession that eventually leads her to commit a horrible crime. The dilemma of this work is Freudian in nature: If someone loves but does not have desire, can they make someone else happy and give her a meaningful life? At the same time, if she cannot articulate what she wants in the terms of modernity, we never know whether she wants to be a mother, wants to be desired, or wants to be fulfilled? Fortunately, the talent of Garcia Lorca goes above and beyond and creates a work that reveals new facets of personal growth and frustration with each reading

La vida corre por la sangre de Yerma y está casada con un hombre honesto. El dilema de esta obra es freudiano, ¿si alguien ama y no desea, puede hacer feliz a alguien y puede, incluso, darle una vida intensa? A la vez no puede articular qué quiere en los términos de la modernidad. ¿Quiere ser madre, quiere ser deseada, quiere ser plena? Nunca sabremos del todo qué quiere. Por suerte el talento de García Lorca va más allá y a haciendas de todo esto cada lectura de esta obra nos revela otra arista de las búsquedas personales y la insaciable incapacidad para encontrar alguna forma de epifanía.