This is a brand new range of books and they are perfect for revision before the exam. This A4 photocopiable book contains 10 essays. The essays are all centred around Yerma and will be written from the perspectives of directors, designers and performers. They would serve as great extra reading, perhaps as a homework, or would form the basis of a revision lesson.

The essays cover a range of topics such as: Yerma's marriage to Juan and how to stage this, exploring Yerma as a tragic victim and the implications of this in a performance, how to approach the sound design with this play and looking at the opportunities for sounds to be used in a symbolic way, presenting the male characters of the play such as Juan and Victor, understanding the context of the play and considering how to capture 1930s rural Spain on stage, the use of symbols within the play such as nature and how these are used to present key messages in the play, exploring the impact of the different conversations on Yerma's emotional state and how this would be presented in a performance, societal codes of honour and the influence of religion on Yerma and how these messages could be conveyed to an audience.