"JERMA" based on Federico García Lorca, directed by Artūras Areima

"Jerma" Based on Federico García Lorca Drama Duration – 2 hours (no intermission) Premiere – May 7, 8, 2026 Performance in Lithuanian Small Hall Creative Team: Director, Set Designer and Adaptation Author – Artūras Areima Costume Designer – Valdemara Jasulaitytė Lighting Designer – Julius Kuršys Composer – π (Monika Poderytė) Assistant Director – Eglė Kuzienė Federico García Lorca's poems translated from Spanish by – Henrikas Bakanas Cast: Jerma – Eglė Špokaitė Marija – Eglė Grigaliūnaitė Desmina – Juliana Volodko Elena – Liuda Gnatenko Robertas, Psychiatrist – Artur Svorobovič Viktoras – Aleksandr Kanajev / Viačeslav Lukjanov /// "Jerma" is a performance about relationships that grow cold, about a demanding body, love that is no longer safe, motherhood without glitter, and the courage to acknowledge what is often left unsaid. Director Artūras Areima's performance, based on Federico García Lorca's play "Jerma" ( Spanish : "Yerma"), delves into the theme of reproduction. The core of the performance is the tension between societal expectations, the pressure to have offspring, and an individual's freedom to create their own life. The play highlights different facets and contradictions of motherhood – the helplessness of not being able to have children and the exhaustion, the threat of losing oneself after having them. Director A. Areima adapted the play "Jerma," written in 1934 by Spanish poet and playwright F. G. Lorca, by transferring its vocabulary, moral dilemmas, and themes into a contemporary context. The play tells the story of a young woman tormented by social stigma – a childless marriage. Jerma is obsessed with the idea of having a child to meet what she believes is the appropriate societal standard. It speaks of a body that begins to dictate more than the mind, of love that does not fit within the confines of a couple, of motherhood as desire, as God, as illness, as protest. "Jerma" speaks of

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