Talitha Koum

I feel liberation drawing near? – from the diary of a young girl, Anne Frank

In a small room, there's a woman totally alienated from people and work. Shutting herself up, she's been doing nothing but sleeping so long with losing sense of time. One day, after dreaming that her dead aunt appeared and said to her ‘Talitha Koum’ (which means ‘little girl, arise!’), she gets up and finds the audition info of the play “Anne Frank”. She believes ‘Talitha Koum' should be suggested for this chance and it comes to her mind like a sort of mission. She believes it commands to both herself and the character in the play. Starting with her own private rite, she begins to keep practicing. As time goes, her monologue repeated sounds like a spell and the practice is getting confused between consciousness and unconsciousness, illusion and reality, the dead and the living, the past and the present. Would she be liberated from De Profundis of time and the character?

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