This anthology of six contemporary plays from Turkey captures such global themes as questions of identity, poverty, class conflict, oppression, anddisplacement while shedding light on current cultural and political matters in Turkey, a country literally at the border of the West and the East that is recovering from military coups and still seeking to establish democracy and human rights.

The title play, Mustafa Kaplan s "Solum," deals with questions of home and identity as explored through physical research on the performer s body. Other plays included are Murathan Mungan s "As on the...