The play 'Yerma' by Federico Garcia Lorca transposed to a West Indian setting by Sylvia Wynter
[Starring] Cleo Laine and Errol John
Sylvia Wynter writes: 'I once read an English translation of Yerma and was impressed by its incongruity. England has no peasant society to correspond with Spain's, and the whole thing had an air of falseness. In Jamaica we still have a small-holding society. I began to translate Yerma again, setting it among these people In almost any small village or town, and the transposition worked naturally, even to the evocative expressions of speech and the old Spanish-style songs of the Maroons.'
