Jina Qelew
(Fat Woman)
2023
BATMAN, DİYARBAKIR, ISTANBUL, MARDİN, ŞANLIURFA, VAN
Since gender inequality has reached high rates in our society, the play "Fat Woman", in which women are at the forefront, and also included in Dario Fo's book Let's Talk About Women, will be staged in Kurdish. The play critically considers the "ideal body" perception imposed on people in the capitalist system, and especially the ideology that sees the female body as a "Meta" and insists that they be so. The play is about Mattea, who was abandoned by her husband because she was overweight and isolated by her daughter. The play conveys the story to the audience as an absurd irony through the eyes of Mattea. Being torn between sleeve gastroctemy and dieting, Mattea makes the audience question whether weight loss is necessary for health or aesthetic body concerns. Based on Mattea, the aesthetic and beauty concerns experienced by women, the pressures experienced especially in business life, and the corruption in modern family relations are discussed in the play.
