Where would you wish to focus your audience's sympathy in Act II Scene II, Yerma, Juan, or both? Explain how you would direct the scene, up to the entrance of Maria.

As the director of Yerma, I would try to focus the audience's sympathy on Yerma because Juan and her sisters are talking about her while she is out getting water from the fountain and also Juan is being very patronising towards her while she isn't there. "Where's she gone? One of you ought to have gone out with her. That's what you're here for." Juan, Pg 181. He is also being patronising to his sisters as …

…voice trying to convince Juan to have children but Juan in this section will be very submissive and this shows the contrast in their characters. I think that the audience would naturally side with Yerma because of the baby situation and I can enhance this by making Juan a very cold character and make him talk about and tending to his sheep, work over love will turn the audience against Juan and more towards Yerma.