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AQA INSERT 2023 A-level DRAMA AND THEATREA-level
DRAMA AND THEATRE
Component 1 Drama and theatre
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Question 15 Lorca: Yerma
From Act One, Scene One
YERMA: You are so lucky!
MARIA: But you know so much more than me.
YERMA: For all the good it does!
MARIA: But why is that? You married along with the rest, but you
are the only one... 5
YERMA: Yes, but there’s still time. Elena waited for three years,
and some of the older women from my mother’s time,
even longer. But, yes, two years and twenty days... it’s
far too long! It’s not fair to be wasting away. Some nights
I go out to the patio in my bare feet just to feel the earth. I 10
don’t know why. If I go on like this, I’ll make myself ill.
MARIA: Come here to me! You talk as if you were old already.
As far as I can see, there’s not much point complaining.
One of my mother’s sisters waited fourteen years. The
boy was perfect! 15
YERMA: (eagerly). Tell me!
MARIA: He cried as loud as a young bull, like a thousand crickets
singing at once, and he’d pee on us and pull our hair. By
the time he was four months old, he used to scratch our
faces. 20
YERMA: (laughing). Things like that don’t hurt.
MARIA: Believe me!
YERMA: Look! I’ve watched my sister feeding her child, and her
breast was scratched and sore. But the pain she felt was
fresh and good and healthy. 25
MARIA: People say that children ruin your life.
YERMA: Not true! Only weak, complaining women say such
things. I can't think why they have them. It’s not like
getting a bunch of roses. We have to suffer to see them
grow up. They draw half our blood from us. But it’s good 30
and healthy and beautiful. We women have blood for four
or five children. But when they don’t come, it turns to
poison, like mine’s doing now.
MARIA: I don’t know what’s wrong with me.
YERMA: It’s a well-known fact. First-time mothers are always 35
frightened.
MARIA: (timidly). I was wondering... You sew so well...
YERMA: (takes the bundle from her). I’ll make two little suits.
What’s this?
MARIA: Oh, that’s for nappies. 40
YERMA: Right. (She sits down.)
MARIA: I’d best be going.
She goes up to YERMA and YERMA lovingly runs her
hands over MARIA’s belly.
YERMA: Remember, don’t run over the stones in the road. 45
MARIA: Goodbye.
She kisses YERMA and leaves.
YERMA: Call again soon!
YERMA goes back to her sewing. She picks up the
scissors and begins to cut the material. Enter VICTOR. 50
Victor!
VICTOR: (serious and solemn). Is Juan around?
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YERMA: Out in the fields.
VICTOR: What are you making?
YERMA: Oh, just some nappies. 55
VICTOR: (smiling). I don’t believe it!
YERMA: (laughing). I'm going to edge them with lace.
VICTOR: If it’s a girl, you can name her after yourself.
YERMA: (trembling). What?
VICTOR: Congratulations! 60
YERMA: (almost choking). No, no! They aren’t for me. They are
for Maria!
VICTOR: Then you can follow her example. This house needs a
child.
YERMA: (anguished). Yes, it does! 65
VICTOR: So just get on with it. Tell your husband to stop working
so much. All right, he wants to make money, but who’s
he going to leave it to? I’m going to see to my sheep.
Tell Juan to pick up the two he's bought from me. As for
the other thing, tell him to dig deep! 70
Exit VICTOR, smiling.
YERMA: (strongly). Yes! Dig deep!
I tell you, my child, I tell you,
For you I shall broken be.
Oh, how this waist is aching, 75
To have you cradled inside me.
Oh, when will you come, oh child of mine?
When your flesh smells of jasmine!
YERMA gets up. Her thoughts are elsewhere. She goes
over to the spot where VICTOR has been standing. She 80
breathes deeply, as if breathing in mountain air. She
crosses to the other side of the room, as though looking
for something, sits once more and picks up her sewing.
She starts to sew, her eyes gazing at a fixed point.
Turn over ►
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