Characters: Cemile, Deniz, Allen, Cemal, Nezahat/Deniz’s Mother, Victoria/Cemal’s Wife, Serhat/Cemile’s Husband, Abdullah/Allen’s Father
About the Play: “Old Child” is based on four different children’s lives from four different geographies. These children are 3 year old Aylan; who, while trying to escape from Syria to Canada drowns in the sea of the Aegean, 8 year old Jamal Salih I’lyan who dies during the bombing of Al-Shati refugee camp where the bomb hits a children’s park, 10 year old Cemile Çağırga who’s hit by a stray bullets in front of her house in the Eastern district of Turkey in Cizre, 9 year old Veysel Deniz Atılgan who’s the youngest of the people who died during the bombing of a peace meeting in the capital of Turkey, Ankara.
Through the lives of these four children the play is dedicated to all the children who are exposed to violence, death and injustice in the World. These children in the play live in an utopia which means that they simply live their lives.