Punishment

Completed

• National Theatre of Young Spectators
• 23 Jan 2026 - 23 Jan 2026

“Punishment”

Age restriction: 18+

Author: Tamara Valiyeva
Stage Director: Mehriban Alakbarzadeh (Honored Art Worker)
Performed by: Kamala Muzaffar (Honored Artist)

Genre: one-person psychological play
Duration: One act — 1 hour 20 minutes

The greatest punishment is the one a person inflicts upon themselves.

At the most mature and responsible moment of her life, a woman falls in love with someone else. She loves mercilessly and hopes for a new life. She forgets her children, her husband, her home, her responsibility… She forgets everything. Because she loves.

When a person desires not what they live, but what they hope for and expect, disaster begins. Hope is the key that opens tomorrow. Yet hope is also the shadow of death. When hope fades, tragedy begins. Because a mother torn away from her children is like a withered tree, with not even grass growing around it. One path remains — suicide.

And suicide is unacceptable.