The extraordinary Billie Piper plays Her, a woman driven to the unthinkable by her desperate desire to have a child. Simon Stone creates a radical new production of Lorca’s achingly powerful masterpiece.
"An extraordinary theatrical triumph" The Times ?????
"Billie Piper makes a shattering Yerma in Simon Stone’s inspired reworking of Lorca" The Observer ?????
“Stunning, searing, unmissable” Mail on Sunday ?????
"A shatteringly powerful reinvention of a familiar classic" The Independent ?????
"Billie Piper is on raw, ferocious, spellbinding form" The Evening Standard ?????
"Brutal yet ferociously funny" Metro ?????
"Wonderfully bold and sensitive writing and direction from Simon Stone” The Sunday Times ????
"Simon Stone's radical update of Lorca is astonishingly powerful" Time Out ????
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