National Theatre Live: Yerma

Director: Simon Stone

Actors: Brendan Cowell, John Macmillan

Release Date: Friday 25th August 2017

Genre(s): Drama

Running time: 120 minutes

A young woman is driven to the unthinkable by her desperate desire to have a child in Simon Stone's radical production of Lorca's achingly powerful masterpiece. Set in contemporary London, Piper's portrayal of a woman in her thirties desperate to conceive builds with elemental force to a staggering, shocking, climax.