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ACTOR
Billie PiperThalissa TeixeiraJohn MacmillanBrendan Cowell
DIRECTOR
Simon Stone,Tony Grech-Smith
SYNOPSICS
National Theatre Live: Yerma (2017) is a English movie. Simon Stone,Tony Grech-Smith has directed this movie. Billie Piper,Thalissa Teixeira,John Macmillan,Brendan Cowell are the starring of this movie. It was released in 2017. National Theatre Live: Yerma (2017) is considered one of the best Drama movie in India and around the world.
The extraordinary Billie Piper plays Her, a woman driven to the unthinkable by her desperate desire to have a child. Simon Stone creates a radical new production of Lorca's achingly powerful masterpiece.
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National Theatre Live: Yerma (2017) Reviews
An absolute theatrical masterpiece
This is a ferocious theatrical experience. It's a little odd to see in a cinema because the episodic nature of it, and the titling that addresses each chapter and subchapter are rendered as video. In the theatre is it a lightbox or is video suspended above the stage? I know not. Accompanying each title is music that starts out loud and ends up deafening, moving from luscious Spanish folk to out and out death metal. It's a suitable underscore to the action on stage which charts the descent into madness of the main protagonist 'Her' played mindblowingly by Billie Piper. Yerma is Spanish for 'Barren' and it's a 1930's tale by Lorca reimagined for 21st century London by Director Simon Stone in a dazzling production. It starts in almost chaos with 'Her' and her future husband John (Brendan Cowell) raging against each other in drunken love with a disturbing undertone of violence, almost hatred, underpinning their love. He's a successful consultant, she a struggling blogger. Their highly sexual relationship is turning as she has notions of motherhood, he anything but. Nevertheless 'Her' wins the day and he agrees to conceive. They never do. Perhaps her abortion of a foetus from previous lover, Victor (John Macmillan), is the reason. But she has fertile eggs, he has strong sperm. It seems it just isn't destined to be. And that drives him to erectile dysfunction and stress, her to madness. The sense of despair is tangible and grows unremittingly. The pace picks up constantly. The chapters flow faster. The noise ratchets. The glass box in which they perform is a goldfish bowl of voyeuriam. We shouldn't be here. It's JUST. TOO. INTIMATE. JUST. TOO. PRIVATE. We REALLY shouldn't be here looking in as this relationship collapses and erupts in total anger. Technically the play is a masterpiece. It reminded me of Malthouse Theatre's incredible imagining of Picnic at Hanging Rock. Massive snap blackouts. Seconds later a carpet of grass, of carpet, of soil. How? Billie Piper is collosal. Brendan Cowell is her match. Simon Stone has imagined a masterpiece.
Devastating brilliance
This is, quite simply, the most eviscerating piece of art I have ever seen. I can say without exaggeration that no actor has ever achieved more than what Billie Piper delivers here. She takes the role to places I have never seen anyone go to. Her work is so soul-shattering, it is nearly impossible to watch as the story mounts toward its heartrending climax. Witnessing this performance is a seriously upsetting experience.... you will not be the same person afterward. All I can say is, you owe it to yourself as a human being to run off to the next screening of this show. It is nothing short of a crime that the National Theatre hasn't released it on DVD so that everyone can see this extraordinary show.
Billie Piper is magnificent
Billie Piper gives one of the most moving, powerful, brutally honest, vulnerable performances I have ever seen. If you're an actor (and even if you're not) do yourself a favor and watch this. It will break your heart, and it's absolutely worth it.