AWARD-WINNING actress Billie Piper stars in the highly acclaimed production Yerma which will be the latest in the current season of live satellite broadcasts from National Theatre Live direct to local big screens.

Yerma which means barren in English, was written by the iconic Spanish dramatist, Federico García Lorca in 1934 and first performed that same year.

García Lorca describes his classic play as “a tragic poem,” which tells the story of a childless woman.

Her desperate desire for motherhood becomes such an obsession that eventually she is driven to commit a horrific crime that is beyond redemption.

Billie Pipe plays the young woman driven to the unthinkable by her desperation to have a child in Simon Stone’s radical production of Lorca’s achingly powerful masterpiece.

The theatrical phenomenon which has sold out at the Young Vic is described as “an extraordinary theatrical triumph” and Piper’s lead performance has been hailed by national theatre critics as “spellbinding”.

Yerma will be broadcast live from the Young Vic in London and screened at Weymouth Cineworld, Dorchester Plaza and Dorchester Odeon on Thursday, August 31 at 7pm.

Simon Stone has set his production of Yerma (15) in contemporary London and Piper’s portrayal of a woman in her thirties desperate to conceive, builds with elemental force to a staggering, shocking, climax.

*Yerma, showing at Weymouth Cineworld, Dorchester Plaza and Dorchester Odeon on Thursday, August 31 at 7pm

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