When she arrived, two men said she had to pay them back for the plane ticket – and the way she had to pay them back was to become a prostitute. “I did not want to work on a farm for the rest of my life,” she says,īut the job was a ruse. Indeed, each would probably be better by itself.Īmina was 15 years old and growing up in a small village in the country of Moldova, she tells us eight years later, when a slightly older teenager told her she had work for her in a café in Turkey. Each of the stories is intriguing enough – important enough – to deserve its own play. All five characters are fictional, we’re told, but all based on actual accounts. What they most have in common is that they are all portrayed by Esi herself, who also dances and sings and recites poetry in-between the monologues. But the traumas are as different as the women. The title attempts to explain: “Phantom Pain.” In this Canadian play from Sky Theater by Lennora Esi, which was part of this year’s Edinburgh Fringe Festival and is still available to watch online, each woman has suffered a trauma.
Why are these five women in the same play? A prostitute in Amsterdam a mother from Guatemala a sister from the Midwest a food vendor in the Central African Republic an international celebrity.
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