The Beauty Inside

Somewhere in rural Turkey, a girl is thrown in a canal; floating downstream, she grabs a pole and holds on tight. Across the Bosporus in cosmopolitan Istanbul, a young Turkish-American lawyer prepares to leave her country for a high-powered life in New York. But the last case she takes is not an ordinary one: a peasant girl has survived an attempted honor killing, and must be defended against her family. And so begins the battle of wills between girl and lawyer, east and west, old and new, a battle that challenges Western assumptions about progress even as it binds their two stories together.

The Beauty Inside is a new play by Catherine Filloux, directed by Kay Matschullat. Co-produced with Interact Theatre Company, Philadelphia.