Yerma

Yerma ('Barren') is a play by the Spanish playwright and poet Federico García Lorca. It was written in 1934, and first performed the same year.

The play tells the story of a childless woman living in rural Spain, whose desperation for children becomes an obsession that eventually drives her to commit a horrific crime.

It is one of the plays that form Lorca's famous 'rural trilogy' of tragedies, the others being Bodas de sangre ('Blood Wedding') and La casa de Bernarda Alba ('The House of Bernarda Alba').