Author: Hümeyra Bilge Şen

Theatre/Drama/Tragedy
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So Which is Harder, To Stay or To Go?: Cırcır Böceği İtler ve Biz (2023)

oiktozlu: Hümeyra Bilge Şen

I will tell you about a 75-minute one-act play.

Before moving on to the play, I should convey a coincidence.

In 2019, I went to the Vahşi Batı – True West theatre at the Kağıthane Sadabat Cultural Centre. I had not researched the play before and I had not bought the ticket. True West was the famous play of Sam Shepard, one of the brave writers of contemporary American theatre and world literature, who died in 2017. On a cold January day, this theatre would be good for me. It was a 115-minute play in 2 acts. The presence of Serdar Orçin and Ahmet Saraçoğlu in the cast was enough for me to watch it. Devamını Oku…

Literature/Review/Novel
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Materialism and Narcissism: Oscar Wilde – The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891)

oiktozlu: Hümeyra Bilge Şen

“You have a marvelously beautiful face, Mr. Gray. Don’t frown. Beauty is a kind of genius, even greater than genius, because it needs no explanation. Beauty is one of the sublime phenomena of the earth, like sunlight, like springtime, like the reflection of that silver shell we call the moon in the dark waters. Its greatness cannot be questioned. Sovereignty is its divine right. She bestows princedoms on those who possess her. Smiling, huh? Well, you won’t smile when you lose your beauty” Devamını Oku…

Theatre/Drama/Tragedy
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Let It Go: Sevgili Arsız Ölüm Dirmit (2018)

oiktozlu: Hümeyra Bilge Şen

Dirmit is the theatre adaptation of Latife Tekin’s novel Dear Arsız Ölüm.

Before talking about the play Dirmit, I would like to talk about Nezaket Erden. Nezaket was born in Mersin on 16 July 1990. She spends her childhood in the village in a family that is so protective that it cannot be called conservative. She went to the mosque every summer, just like every child in the 90s did in the summer. Nezaket, who is at the mosque during the day, has to be at home in the evenings. After the evening prayer, girls cannot play on the street. The enthusiasm and the lack of enthusiasm she has to live with makes her a withdrawn child. She plays a lot at weddings with her family and dancing suddenly becomes her passion. While he sees dance as a means of expressing his feelings and derives great pleasure from it, she loses his enthusiasm during his secondary school years. This situation leads her to volleyball. Devamını Oku…

Movie/Drama
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God-Given Ugliness: Kıskanmak (2009)

oiktozlu: Hümeyra Bilge Şen

Released on November 6, 2009, the movie Kıskanmak (Jealousy) takes place in Zonguldak in the 1930s. I can list the names in the cast of the movie for you as follows;

Berrak Tüzünataç as Mükerrem, Nergis Öztürk as Seniye, Bora Cengiz as Nüzhet, Serhat Tutumluer as Halit and many more great actors whose names I cannot write here. The cast of the movie is really good. Devamını Oku…

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God-Given Ugliness: Envy (Kıskanmak) (2009)

oiktozlu: Hümeyra Bilge Şen

The movie Envy (Kıskanmak) , which was released to the audience on November 6, 2009, takes place in Zonguldak in the 1930s. I can list the names in the cast of the film for you as follows;

Berrak Tüzünataç with the character of Mükerrem, Nergis Öztürk with the character of Seniye, Bora Cengiz with the character of Nüzhet, Serhat Tutumluer with the character of Halit and many more great actors whose names I cannot write here. The cast of the film is really good. Devamını Oku…

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