Word: yerma
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...whom had worked together before did staged readings and adaptations, and concentrated on learning from one another rather than aiming for polished theatrical products. In the process, they churned through an astounding amount of material, including an adaptation of a vampire novel, a reworking of the fall's mainstage Yerma, and the season's culmination simultaneous and interconnecting performances of Medea, Macbeth and Cinderella on the same stage...
Assistant to the Dean of Admissions Yerma V Gonzalez explained that the new recruiting program includes more college visiting an "a more deliberate outreach to churches, synagogues, denominational officials, and people who are actively involved in parishes...
...current season lacking in relevance to our audience, I call to your attention both Curse of the Starving Class and A Raisin in the sun, both acknowledged classics of American theater. In addition Yerma and Love's Comedy, while not necessarily well known scripts, are written by known, quality, playwrights--it seems eminently appropriate to present the community with these plays which might otherwise remain in library stacks somewhere, keeping to themselves the richness they offer. I flatly deny that Broadway, commercial, success has anything to do with the refusal of past proposals--nor should it be a reason...
Herein lies the problem. Each year the members of the board of the Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club choose which shows will appear on the Mainstage. This fall, we saw Curse of the Starving Class and Yerma; scheduled for the spring teen are A Raisin in the Sun and Love's Comedy. In spite of how good each of these plays may be, and how worthwhile it may be to produce them, there is a problem with this schedule. It lacks the one thing Harvard prides itself on: diversity. The plays are certainly different, and yet, not different enough. There...
Rauch's interpretation succeeds in generalizing Yerma's dilemma into a cross-cultural experience. Rauch tones down the Spanish influences until there are only subtle suggestions of it in the delicate frill of a classical guitar and the fringed shawl that Yerma drapes over her head. And in this he excels; the villagers could belong to any village. Juan's possessive sisters to any brother and Yerma's pain to any women...