When he stepped onto the stage, there was a man with a tambourine in his hand and a story to tell on his face. He came gliding through the shadows under the dim lights, greeting us with the rhythm of the tambourine and sending us off to our seats. At that very moment, we realized that we were not in an ordinary play. 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…
In this play, we follow the adventure of the legendary humour newspaper Markopaşa, which started its publishing life in 1946.
In its first issue, the newspaper states “[…] Our aim is not to laugh just to laugh. It is to think and be useful by laughing.” Devamını Oku…
The play Yaralarım Aşktandır (My Wounds are from Love) depicts the life of Iranian poet Fürug Ferruzad.
In addition to being a poet, Fürug Ferruzad is a filmmaker, writer, actor and painter. She also played a very important role in laying the foundations of modern Iranian cinema. Devamını Oku…
