It is always interesting to follow the character arc of a social moment and finally see the kind of artwork they produce. This is how I approached Reka Kolektif’s play "Jonas’la Evlenmek ("Marrying Jonas"), about four hopefuls who enter a contest to be the one to marry the Swedish Jonas and live with him in his fairyland country.
The connected, mobile and prosperous years that just preceded the coronavirus pandemic in Türkiye saw the rise of a middle-class movement that decided that there was no future for the clever and the talented in Türkiye. I can’t remember the exact year, but I remember sitting at a cafe and listening to a medical doctor at the next table talk about how they were attending a German language course to start a life in the promised land. Social media was full of videos about where to apply and how to settle in various parts of Europe.
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