Federico Garcia Lorca spent three months in Cuba in 1930 - six years before he was assassinated (aged just 38) by Franco nationalists in his native Spain. He fell in love with the Caribbean island nation and it with him. And it's this association that inspired Jorge de Juan in his new adaptation of Lorca classic Yerma.
Ay, Carmela! Q&A video and photos: Do only the dead remember the Spanish Civil War?
How much do you know about the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939)? Who fought on the side of the Republicans and who for the Nationalists? What happened to those who got caught in the middle, such as Paulino and Carmelo in Jose Sanchis Sinisterra's Ay, Carmela!?
Blood Wedding Q&A and podcast: What happens when you relocate Lorca to modern London?
What a reminder that live theatre is LIVE, that things can go wrong and that that's all part of the excitement.
Acts of theatre resistance: Insignificance, The Lorax, Young Marx, Imagine This, Bernarda Alba
Clockwise from top left: Young Marx, The House of Bernarda Alba, Insignificance, Imagine This