TURKISH DELIGHT THE OPERA - by Giles Howe and Katy Lipson
"Angel Delight" - Featured in A STAGE KINDLY presents "Debut", "Encore" and "Bravo", "Jeremiad" featured in "Debut" and "Do You Remember" featured in "Debut" and "Encore".
www.turkishdelighttheopera.com
Exploring the pleasures and perils of vengeance, Turkish Deight the Opera chronicles the final chapters in the life of Betsy Cohen - a stir-crazy Turkish Jewish woman, whose husband's extramarital affair drives her over the edge into a dangerous insanity!! Off trots his blissfully unaware soubrette mistress to Turkey for a romantic few days away. However, her gay flat mate, upon her departure, realizes that he is in fact impossibly in love with her. Impetuous and impulsive, he follows her to Turkey to declare his love. However, when he finds her, she is kissing the Turkish man!! Incensed (and inebriated) he stabs her lover in a crime of passion. The Turkish man dies in the arms of his lover, leaving her alone and ultimately forlorn in a strange country with nowhere to turn. Betsy finds out about her husbands death in a mysterious letter that arrives in the post on her birthday. She is horrified at his gruesome murder, but this blow is slightly eclipsed by her fury and rage at the realization that the man to whom she has dedicated her life was a deceitful and adulterous cad! Vengeance and retribution become her sole concerns, and consume her entire existence. After maneuvering one revenge after another, suddenly she realizes how she has ruined not only that of her victims, but also her own life, and spends the rest of her life mourning and regretting and grieving how she could never see past her own nose. Careering into senile confusion, she begins to hallucinate. She is "visited" by her dead husband. The sentiments he whispers creepily in her ear break the camels back, and result in a shocking and extreme final tableaux, leaving the audience with jaws dropped, conflicted between laughing at the absurdity or empathizing with the tragedy of Betsy's tragic and shocking demise.
Visit the show online at http://www.turkishdelighttheopera.com
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