I Woke Up With No Voice

Uyandığımda Sesim Yoktu (Mouthpiece) is a play written for the rights of women who overtly or covertly suffered oppression, women who are unable to express themselves because of various fears and limitations imposed on them by the society, silenced, battered, even killed in cold blood. It’s story of a woman writer who questions violence against women and the place of women in society in the context of how similar her life is to her recently deceased mother’s. Cassandra, who wakes up to the news of her mother’s demise, comes to realize the huge similarities between their lives while trying to come up with a eulogy she has to deliver. Her acceptance and denial of this fact leads us to see two conflicting sides of her personified. Her two sides manifested in two separate bodies mostly argue but come to terms a few times. Cassandra, with her rebellious attitude and defiance, wants to prove to us that a society where women can find their voices and express themselves is possible. Uyandığımda Sesim Yoktu (Mouthpiece) aims to show that there can be turning back for the women who have toiled so hard to reconnect with their strength, stand firm and express Themselves.