Role of the character within the context of each play as a whole.

Question 1

A Woman Alone

Answer 1

• She is the protagonist in a play about gender inequality.
• We see her doing traditional chores as well as non-traditional chores such as looking after her brother-in-law who is a creep.
• She is talking to a new neighbour, and she is excited to talk to someone after a time of isolation.
• We find out about her life as a mother, wife and lover of a young man she had an affair with called The Boy. There is a man who calls her up and harasses her. She finds out it’s a different neighbour.
• Although The Boy becomes just like all the other men when he tries to grab her through the door.
• In the end she shoots the neighbour who harasses her, she pushes her brother-in-law’s wheelchair down the stairs. And the play ends with her holding the gun waiting for her husband.
• Represents the fight against gender inequality. Changes her own situation at end.

Question 2

Angel

Answer 2

• A one-woman show about a Kurdish female fighter called Rehanna who fights in the women’s unit of the YPG (the Kurdish military fighting ISIS).
• In the beginning we see her as 12 years old and she has learned how to kill.
• She wants to be a lawyer but the rise of ISIS stops her.
• Then it follows her life, the fall of Mosul, the rise of ISIS.
• Her mother becomes a refugee but she refuses to leave because she doesn’t want to leave her dad.
• Then she joins the YPG and becomes a front-line fighter.
• In the end she gets killed by the religious hothead called Wahid who features in my scene.