NT Live: Yerma

The incredible Billie Piper (Penny Dreadful, Great Britain) returns in her Evening Standard Best Actress award-winning role.

A young woman is driven to the unthinkable by her desperate desire to have a child in Simon Stone’s radical production of Lorca’s achingly powerful masterpiece. The unmissable theatre phenomenon sold out at the Young Vic and critics call it ‘an extraordinary theatrical triumph’ (The Times) and ‘stunning, searing, unmissable’ (Mail on Sunday). Billie Piper’s lead performance is described as ‘spellbinding’ (The Evening Standard), ‘astonishing’ (iNews) and ‘devastatingly powerful’ (The Daily Telegraph).

Set in contemporary London, Piper’s portrayal of a woman in her thirties desperate to conceive builds with elemental force to a staggering, shocking, climax.

★★★★★ ‘Billie Piper is astonishing – everything about this production is on-point’ iNews

★★★★★ ‘Brutal yet ferociously funny’ Metro

★★★★★ ‘A shatteringly powerful reinvention of a familiar classic’ The Independent

★★★★★ ‘Billie Piper is on raw, ferocious, spellbinding form’ The Evening Standard

★★★★★ ‘Billie Piper makes a shattering Yerma in Simon Stone’s inspired reworking of Lorca’ The Observer

★★★★★ ‘Stunning, searing, unmissable’ Mail on Sunday

★★★★★ ‘An extraordinary theatrical triumph’ The Times

Please note this broadcast does not have an interval.

Price includes a £1 contribution to our heritage fund.