| ISBN | 9781928215707 |
| Pages | 74 |
| Dimensions | 198 x 129mm |
| Published | 2019 |
| Publisher | Modjaji Books, South Africa |
| Format | Paperback |
I turned away and she was gone
by Jennie Reznek
Three incarnations of women: a mother, a daughter and an old crone. A haunting of past, present and future selves. Drawing loosely on the Greek myth of Demeter and Persephone, this poetic text explores the process of individuation, the inevitability of a young girl’s journey into the shadow and into the unknown, of the bonds that connect mothers and children to each other, of loss and the dense beautiful soaring life that we are all traveling through.
Reviews
“Lines so true, I felt I was living them as I read them. In Reznek’s vision, time turns daughter into mother and goddess into crone, each a new country, distant to each other then near again… a master work of drama.”
“I turned away and she was gone is by no means easy theatre, but it is rewarding. The delightful humour and the relevance of the production, anchored by the millennia of theatre that have come before it, makes this a play worth seeing.”
“Stirs the soul… astonishing.”