“A fine production with an excellent cast. Impossible to forget!” - The Patriot Ledger

“Gorgeous, dazzling, kaleidoscopic! The intensity reaches fever pitch.” - EdgeBoston

“Cigdem Onat’s performance is rich and wonderful!” - The Boston Globe

A journalist and her colleague find themselves unexpectedly "detained" by a band of insurgents as bombs rain down on a wartorn landscape. Her captors offer her one telephone call - a chance to reconnect with the mother she hasn't spoken to in 10 years, now living in Turkey and preparing for a festival celebrating the great Sufi poet Rumi. History, religion, and the beauty of whirling dervishes collide in this powerful, ripped-from-the-headlines portrait of a world at war.

Sinan Unel's plays have been produced in New York, Boston, New Haven, Los Angeles, London, Germany, and Austria. A Huntington Playwriting Fellow, he is the winner of the John Gassner Memorial Award, the Daryl Roth Creative Spirit Award, and the Lark Theater's New Play Award. His other plays include Pera Palas, Tolstoy's Den, Thalassa My Heart, and The Three of Cups.

Approximate Running Time: 2 hours and 30 minutes; including one intermission

Read the Globe feature on playwright Sinan Ünel

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