Got this from the Young Victoria theatre box office in London!

Blurb: 'Well we've got three floors right. Plenty of room... Room for a children's bedroom. Room for two.'

London, the present day. A woman is driven to the unthinkable by her desperate desire to have a child.

Written and directed by Simon Stone, this radical new version of Lorca's tragedy of yearning and loss won universal critical acclaim when it premiered at the Young Vic in July 2016.

Yerma triumphed at the 2017 Olivier Awards, with the production winning Best Revival, and Piper winning Best Actress. She also won the Evening Standard Natasha Richardson Award for Best Actress. Maureen Beattie, Brendan Cowell, John MacMillan and Charlotte Randle received unanimous praise for their performances.

So, I bought this book before even seeing the theatre production, and I didn't even watch the production until a few months later in a cinema in Birmingham, which was showcasing the theatre production. Billie Piper was amazing and even after the few years that have passed, I still remember what happened. It was weird but fantastical, encouraging the viewers to expand their imagination.

Now that I've read this screenplay book, I now know how much Billie Piper pulled this whole production through. This character is her in every way and she embodied 'her' but I really believe this would've fallen flat if Billie Piper hadn't played the main character. Even just reading this book, it's bland and unappealing unless you imagine Piper in the role.

I have to admit that I am glad that I saw the theatre production before reading this book because I wouldn't be into reading this whole thing and almost gave up with it. There's barely any narration (granted it's a screenplay, but there's no stage directions or anything) - which I think comes from the writer also having had directed the theatre production, so he didn't see the need in stage directions or any narration as he was there giving the direction. There was no sense of time or the switching of scenes, so it was difficult to follow. And some of the character interactions were baseless and felt both false and forced, at times.

What I did enjoy was the storyline and how we follow the journey of our main character, named 'her'. But it was rather lack-lusting, to say the least.

Left this on the Bookcrossing shelf in Urban Coffee Company. I was tempted to take a couple of books home but I'm being good as I'm trying to lower my mountain of books, rather than gain more - at the moment.

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