Yerma, whose name means barren land, is married to Juan and longs for children, only from her husband. Juan cannot, he does not have the passion to do so. Victor, who could, does not belong to her. Her husband, immersed in suspicions about her, calls his sisters to his house to watch her.

Yerma, in her anguish, reaches hysteria. One night, in a monastery dedicated to a fertility saint, in a last-ditch effort, she runs into Juan, who has been hiding and listening to a conversation between his wife and an old woman who reveals that her husband is to blame. When he, on the verge of cynicism, confesses that he feels better without children, she explodes and strangles him. Seeing in Juan only the child she never had, she kills him, killing with him the possibility of ever having one.

Adapting F. G. Lorca’s Yerma, we look forward to a performance that succinctly conveys the poet’s existential anguish beyond the text’s customary background, in order to convey the brutality of a dark life, but also its tender lyricism. The passion of the flesh and the tragic fate that characterizes Lorca here and in his other texts. Heroes who carry on their backs a legacy full of pain, passion, and blood. Betrayed love, betrayed nature, the dissatisfaction of motherhood. Substances that slant beneath the verse with a gaze that strips away the details, approaching the symbols as and where they have their magnitude.

CAST AND CREW

Translation-Adapted by-Director: Panos Kyparissis

The actors:

Socrates Angelis Victor, Male Figure

Dora Avlonitou Sister-in-law, Old Woman II, Laundress

Vlassis Manatos Juan

Iliana Panagiotouni Old Woman

Nafsika Pyrrou Maria Laundress, Female Figure

Vasiliki Skalkou Yerma

Ioanna Tzigounaki Sister-in-law, Laundress, Dolores

Music: Giannis Psimadas

Photos-Art Designs by: Konstantinos Zoumperis, Elissavet Neonaki

INFORMATION

Official Opening Night: Saturday 17 January 2026

Shows: Every Saturday at 18:30 and Sundays at 21:00

Duration: 90’ (without intermission)

Tieckets: 

General fee : 16 euros

Reduced (students, unemployed, people with disabilities, over 65): €12 (upon presentation of the necessary documentation at the theater box office)

Pre-sale: https://www.more.com/gr-el/tickets/theater/yerma-f-g-lorca/

Alkmini Theatre

Alkminis 8-12, Kato Petralona

Tel: 210 342 8650