The play Yaralarım Aşktandır (My Wounds are from Love) depicts the life of Iranian poet Fürug Ferruzad.
In addition to being a poet, Fürug Ferruzad is a filmmaker, writer, actor and painter. She also played a very important role in laying the foundations of modern Iranian cinema.
Fürouğ Ferruzad was the child of a hard-natured colonel who was fond of books and poetry and a mother who was, in her own words, childlike and innocent.
In his early youth, she was separated from his child because he rebelled against peer pressure. Her first book of poetry was published when she was twenty. Five books of poetry would be published in his thirty-two years of life.
Fürug Ferruzad’s poems are about society’s pressure on women, love, loneliness and sadness.
In a letter she wrote, “My desire is for the freedom of Iranian women and their rights to be equal to men. I know the suffering of my sisters in the unjust world of men in this country. I use half of my art for their troubles and sufferings.”
She suddenly swerved the car she was driving to avoid hitting a school bus and died as a result of the accident.
In the theater play My Wounds are from Love, you will watch how Ferruzad, whose death could not even be tolerated, actually only wanted to live in an atmosphere where there was no oppression, and how she distilled every pain she suffered and turned it into sound and poetry.
From the beginning to the end of the play, you will watch the famous poet’s childhood, his adulthood, the factors in the process of becoming a poet and his struggle for self-existence by saying that life is not a flowing river.
Fürug Ferruzad leaves her child, falls in love, gets divorced, experiences heartbreak, dances and rebels. Fürug Ferruzad wants to live.
In this theater, there is a woman’s rebellion that will stay with you.
Şebnem İşigüzel, one of Turkey’s most important writers, wrote the play. Berfin Zenderlioğlu directed it. The giant cast of the one-woman play is Nazan Kesal.
There are many reasons that make it inevitable to go to this play… You can go to witness excerpts from Fürug Feruzad’s life, to contemplate poetic lyrics, to experience a flawless script or to watch Nazan Kesal’s magnificent acting. Each reason alone emphasizes that the play should be seen.
This one-person play is staged in one act.
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Year of First Performance: 2019
Actress: Nazan Kesal
By: Şebnem İşigüzel
Directed by: Berfin Zenderlioglu
Lighting and Set Design: Cem Yilmazer
Music: Burçak Çöllü
Assistant Director: Deniz Biber
Costume Design: Natali Yeres
Movement Pattern: Dicle Doğan
Poster Photo: Dilan Bozyel
