LOST AND FOUND

Written by: Sevim AK
Adapted by: Elif TEMUÇİN, Firuze ENGİN
Performed by: Güray DİNÇOL, Firuze ENGİN, Bilge GÜLTÜRK
Costume and props design by: Hilal POLAT

The story begins when a potted geranium plant is left in a taxi cab and brought to a lost and found office. Upset and homesick, the geranium dislikes this new place. The usual inhabitants of the room approach this unhappy flower with curiosity; then, they start sharing their own stories. They try to warm her up, telling her that living here is not as bad as she thinks. The confused geranium meets many new friends in this lost and found world: A theater costume missing her days as a celebrity, an old telephone who witnessed many a day of joy and sorrow, a suitcase who spent his life traveling around the world, a classy dance shoe, a piece of paper who resents being written on, and an umbrella who was left in the rain and caught a cold. But it’s still not easy for the gentle flower to adapt to this environment.

Disappointed with being left behind and deprived of sunlight in this dusty and dim room, the geranium falls into despair. Will she ever be happy here in this strange place with her new friends? When the night falls, she can’t sleep at all, but cries alone. Come the morning, a surprise awaits everyone.

“Lost and Found”, an Object Theater Piece:
Children begin to interact with objects as soon as developing their sense of touch. As they grow, objects play a very important role in expanding their imagination and building up their communication skills. In many cases, ordinary objects are a child’s earliest and most essential toys. Today, “object theater” is an important part of contemporary children’s theater, where quotidian items are manipulated as puppets, keeping their original size, shape and appearance. “Lost and Found”, BereZe’s second experience with this technique, tells a story through a skill very familiar to children: animating things. In other words, the leading roles in this play are taken by “things”. 

In this play, adapted from a story by one of the famous writers of Children’s literature, Sevim Ak, the geranium flower’s experience is comparable to a child’s first day in school.