“The voice of the sea is seductive; never ceasing, whispering, clamouring, murmuring, inviting the soul to wander for a spell in abysses of solitude; to lose itself in mazes of inward contemplation.”

So concludes Kate Chopin’s pivotal novel The Awakening.

Written in the late 1800s, the book follows the journey of Edna Pontellier, a woman who finds herself on the brink of self-actualisation. Edna - married, and a mother - is beginning to feel, for the first time, the tug of an illicit identity that has long lain dormant under her skin. Kept at bay by the social requirements of being a woman - a wife - a mother - only now is she beginning to realise a new self that is slowly taking form... A self that desires, a self that longs for solitude, a self that is shaped by music that drifts from the piano and the awakened lust Edna experiences on this magical moon soaked evening.

Produced by Phoebe McIndoe and Marta Medvesek, 2022