Yerma

Author: Federico García Lorca. (June 5, 1898, Fuente Vaqueros, Granada - August 18, 1936, Alfacar, Granada.)

Written in 1934 by the much celebrated Spanish writer Federico García Lorca, the play follows the story of its protagonist Yerma, a woman who longs dearly for a child, and whose desire for motherhood manifests as an obsessive preoccupation with her body and its unfulfilled purpose. In English, Yerma can be translated to mean barren.