Solum and Other Plays from Turkey History of ideas and family across the decades

and family across the decades

to turning ripe summer fruits into luscious desserts and creating a glamorous formal dinner to welcome in the New Year in style

Whether in front of the camera or behind it

This is the beginning of a most unexpected friendship

But as they explore each other’s bodies and discover new pleasures

Solum and Other Plays from Turkey History of ideas and family across the decadesThis anthology of six contemporary plays from Turkey captures such global themes as questions of identity, poverty, class conflict, oppression, and displacement while shedding light on current cultural and political matters in Turkey, a country literally at the border of the West and the East that is recovering from military coups and still seeking to establish democracy and human rights. The title play, Mustafa Kaplans Solum, deals with questions of