Zohra Segal, A Yearning, 1995
A Yearning (1995)
Credits
Director Kristine Landon-Smith
Designer Sue Mayes
Lighting Designer Paul Taylor
Composer & Musical Director Ansuman Biswas
Literal Translation Gwenda Pandolfi
Sound Designer Mike Furness
Original Cast Riz Abassi, Sudha Bhuchar, Farouque Khan, Surendra
Kochar, Archie Panjabi, Zita Sattar, Zohra Segal, Harvey Virdi
adapted by Ruth Carter from Federico García Lorca’s Yerma
Amar, a bride from India, yearns for a child but her husband Jaz is too
preoccupied with his Birmingham minicab firm to see her loneliness. Faced
with Amar’s failure to conceive, the community that was once nurturing becomes
increasingly stifling...
A transposition of Lorca's classic to Britain's Punjabi community, A Yearning addresses the plight of a woman married into a society where her real worth is measured by her ability to have children. Tamasha was delighted that for this production they were able to secure the renowned acting talents of Zohra Segal.
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