YARN TRACE (excerpt)

Characters: Suna (Turkish name meaning beautiful and male duck) - a female living alone in a foreign country.

Stage: a living room: a chair in front of a window with a coffee table next to it.

Lighting: not bright, there could be a table lamp on the coffee table.

Sound: just the character speaking

Script: {Audience recognizes that there is yarn on the floor outside of the room, going toward the stage. The end of the yarn is tied to the leg of a chair on stage, which has many more cut tied yarn pieces. The actress walks in after everyone sits down, while knitting the yarn that was laid on the ground. She comes in, cuts the yarn, sits down on the chair and puts on the striped blanket she was just knitting while starting to talk.}

Suna: These walls squeeze me, but I welcome them because as my grandmother said, a tight soul is good; it won’t leave you. Most of my amusement can fit into the stripes of this blanket. That’s all there is to my joy. These colored lines are the evidence of my past. Every stitch is a step I took. Stitch after stitch. Line after line. Stripe after stripe after line. I wish there was more, I wish I had a different life; {long pause} but what can I do?

Sometimes, I tell myself {angry}

Çık git! Kalksana! Ne işin var elalemin toprağında? Git, dön ait olduğun yere!” {long pause, calmer}

Have a completely different life. {talking about the place where she would have her different life} Kargalar pıtı pıtı gelsin, tık tık çalsınlar kapını. İçeri buyur et, bi sabah çayı için, like dancing with a whirling squirrel.

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