The Awakening | Prix Marulic

Prix Marulic Selection

A finalist in the 2022 prestigious Prix Marulic Festival, Hvar. The Awakening, is a poetic meditation on Kate Chopin’s 19th century novel by the same name.

“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.