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★★★★★ "An extraordinary theatrical triumph" The Times, LondonA radical new version of Federico Garcia Lorca’s masterpiece, set in contemporary London. Billie Piper won the Olivier award for best actress for her portrayal of a young woman driven to the unthinkable by her desperate desire to have a child. Piper repeated the role in the New York production, which played at the Park Avenue Armory in March and April 2018.Simon Stone is an award-winning Australian film and theater director, writer and actor.

Garcia Lorca's long out-of-print poetic sequence about New York City is as contemporary as today's headlines: slums, racism, violence and cries of loneliness punctuate this verse. "This is one of the perplexing classics of 20th-century poetry. . . . (The collection) is a fierce indictment of the modern world incarnated in city life . . ".--"The New Yorker".