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“No, I’ve felt a little relieved since that night, but it’s as if I still haven’t completely cooled down inside. I don’t understand it; apparently my anger has just been sitting inside me like a ball of fire. It’s cooled down a little. But every now and then I still feel awful again. Something has clung to me since that night. My head won’t stop; it keeps working nonstop. My head, my brain, are always awake. I say, ‘Be quiet once in a while, girl.’ I don’t know, since I’m a woman, I suppose the thing inside my head is a woman too, so I say it that way. A woman with eyes wide open like a djinn’s.” Ayten, who works cleaning toilets at a nightclub, tells her story piece by piece from the place she has made her own. About how she “ended up” here, her husband who left her, her sorrow, her desire, and the other friends who work at the nightclub she loves so much—but most of all, about her anger… The anger she could not define in the past, whose meaning she reached only bit by bit, shatters one day like the frosted glass of the toilet window, and after that, nothing is ever the same again. Written by: Alis Çalışkan Directed by: Hakan Emre Ünal Performed by: Pınar Güntürkün Dramaturgy: Teamwork Assistant Director: Alis Çalışkan Poster Design: Yaşam Özlem Gülseven Technical Implementation: Taha Arıkan Photography: Ayçin Çalışkan Production: Temsili Sahne One Act Duration: 80 Minutes Genre: Tragedy & Drama – Comedy Age Limit: +13 Year of First Performance: 2021 Awards and Nominations: 22nd Direklerarası Audience Awards (Solo Performance) Pınar Güntürkün 24th Yapı Kredi Afife Theatre Awards (Most Successful Female Actor of the Year) Pınar Güntürkün