Stage Mothers
A women’s theatre in rural Turkey.
by Elif Batuman December 24, 2012
December 24, 2012 Issue
ABSTRACT: LETTER FROM ARSLANKÖY about the Arslanköy Women’s Theatre Group, an all-female theatre group, based in rural Turkey, which is writing and performing plays. Ümmiye Koçak, who is now in her mid-fifties, was a forty-four-year-old farmworker with a primary-school education when she caught the theatre bug from a school play that a local school principal, Hüseyin Arslanköylü, had staged the previous year.
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