Inspired by Lorca, an L.A. playwright sets off in search of `Yerma in the Desert`
(LA Times Dodgers)

Plays can be read many ways, especially when they´re as poetically abstract as Federico García Lorca´s `Yerma.` His 1934 play about a woman scorned for being childless is often interpreted to be a criticism of Spain´s patriarchal practice of Catholicism at the time. That reading, though, isn´t...