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A Sad Story of Racism Turned Showmanship: Hartlepool Maymunu (2023)

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“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.

Devamını Oku…

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

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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…

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Let It Go: Sevgili Arsız Ölüm Dirmit (2018)

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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 The enthusiasm and the lack of enthusiasm she has to live with makes her a withdrawn child.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…