Katariina Numminen / Reality Research Center (FIN): DRAMA RELOADED: YERMA

The project Drama Reloaded: Yerma studies the relationship between drama and reality. The material for the project is Yerma, a play written by Federico García Lorca in 1934. It tells the story of a woman driven to insanity by childlessness. In this project by Katariina Numminen, García Lorca’s tragic poem comes face to face with everyday reality. A team studies the play in different contexts and with different people – people who are touched by, or have a special relationship to infertility. This process gives rise to a performance that brings drama off stage and into the midst of everyday life.

Katariina Numminen is a dramatist and director from Helsinki, in whose work sound, memory, reality and documents play an important role. She works amongst others in Vyborg Artistic Theatre and Reality Research Center. Drama Reloaded: Yerma is a part of the RRC Reloaded program of Reality Research Center.

Producers: Reality Research Center & Baltic Circle

CREDITS

On stage: Niina Hosiasluoma, Antti Jaakola and Kaisa Niemi

Dramaturgy and direction: Katariina Numminen

Assistant director: Venla Korja

Set design and costumes: Paula Koivunen

Light design: Max Wikström

Photos: Jack Balance

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