Synopsis
The Awakening
$15.99
Published by arion
Large Mixed Cast
Ayla is twenty-eight years old
She lived the first half of her life in the heart of a caring family, but when she was fourteen, she fell out of a boat into the sea and her father lost his life trying to save her
Since that day she has lived alone with her embittered mother as a semi-recluse
For fourteen years, this trauma and its aftermath, the weight of the unspoken words of love and reproach between her and her mother, has tainted her life
As the play opens, Ayla has decided to try to reclaim her life
She has just found a job at a surgery, and her increased interaction with the outside world leads to an awakening in her life
This transformation is an awakening for her mother too
At the final curtain, Ayla has evolved from being a social, psychological, and emotional misfit into a fully integrated member of society
Translated from the Turkish by Alvin Parmar