Yerma – review  Hull Truck theatre 3 out of 5 3   • The
Guardian,   • Jump to comments ()  Yerma is not an outwardly
complex play. Lorca's drama has a folkloric quality that can be
summed up by a familiar children's rhyme: the farmer wants a
wife, the wife wants a child. Yet what happens after several
barren summers when the wife is still trying, but the farmer is
not trying nearly hard enough? Most interpretations focus on the
anguish of Yerma's continued failure to conceive in an
oppressively Catholic, overtly superstitious society, which
places faith in dubious fertility rites and regards childless
women to be cursed.    1. Yerma   2. Hull Truck,   3. Hull   1.
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details  But Anthony Weigh's new version, jointly produced by
the Gate and Hull Truck, pays particular attention to the roots
of her husband's indifference. Weigh takes an uncompromisingly
anti-poetic approach. The stream, so central to the play's
symbolism, is repeatedly referred to as "t