It’s the challenge of an illiterate man. I’ll tell you about a book of about fifty pages. In these fifty pages we witness the author’s whole life story. But it is such a story that the author addresses our hearts and conscience. Devamını Oku…
It is as if a question was asked and then a film was made to answer that question. And what is that question?
How can a man who feels happy only when he is unhappy be happy?
Released in 2018, the film Oiktos is the story of addiction to pain. I will briefly tell you about the film and try to write about what it made me feel and the emergence of oiktos.
In April 2023, I was looking at the new arrivals on Mubi and I saw it; Oiktos… Devamını Oku…
“A nation is a society united by illusions about its ancestors and a common hatred of its neighbours.”
I had recently reviewed Wilfrid Lupano‘s comic book version of the legend of The Hartlepool Monkey – Hartlepool Maymunu and I liked it very much. There are those who know the legend, for those who don’t, I will tell you about it together with the theatre. The theatre play Hartlepool Monkey, which I came across right after this comic book, was an extra curiosity for me. I watched Hartlepool Monkey, which Tufan Afşar took the legend as a subject and produced it as an original play, in the front row at Ara Sahne in Beyoğlu. Can watching it in the front row taste different? Yes, because it feels like you are right inside the play.
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…
“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…
