Hamlet’s famous advice to the players goes: “Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you, trippingly on the tongue.” But what do you do as a performer if you are living within a culture that sees you as an alien, as ‘other’? Featuring at this year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe and an ex...
Originating from the Ottoman era, Karagöz and Hacivat are among Turkey’s most famous and popular theatre characters, a perfect foil for each other as they seek to solve everyday problems. Karagöz represents the illiterate, but straightforward general public, while Hacivat is from the educated cla...
The co-founders of Dalston’s Arcola Theatre have received the Off West End Special Achievement Award for their work staging outstanding theatre for the past 20 years. Mehmet Ergen, Arcola’s Artistic Director, and Leyla Nazli, an Executive Producer, received the award at the Off West End Awards ce...
A man is preparing to get married for the fifth time. His fate lies in the hands of his four previous wives: should they kick, love or kill him? Written, directed and starring Okan Bayülgen, Harem Kabare is a musical comedy with a twist. The women take centre stage with their all too familiar lif...
The supernatural madness of Shakespeare’s enduring classic is brought to life at the seaside with a cast of Turkish characters. A world of chaos ensues in a story brimming with love and lust, as friendships as tested and magical worlds explored. This radical adaptation of A Midsummer Night’s Drea...
Pan Productions returns with a re-run of its powerful, contemporary interpretation of a British classic, performed by immigrants. The play, by award-winning director Aylin Bozok (pictured above), brings together diverse people to explore the unspoken rules of English society which confront foreig...
Yıldız Kenter, one of Turkey’s biggest stars of cinema and theatre, has died in Istanbul at the age of 91. The multi award-winning actress had been battling lung disease and was in intensive care at the American Hospital when she passed away on Sunday, 17 November. During an illustrious career...
When a journalist is sent a flash-drive containing critical evidence of illegal government activity, he is duty-bound to publish the story. But with the nation destabilised and divided, a sinister power is eroding the rule of law. What price will he pay for speaking out? The Arcola Theatre’s firs...
Two different sexes, two different perspectives. Male and female – a natural oxymoron. In the universal order in which everything exists only by its opposite number, these two genetic miracles, who owe their entire existence to the other, need only one thing for their peaceful continuity: balance...
How was the 3rd tooth of the fork formed? What did we use before we used buttons? Is the history we have been told just that of big men or do the small details change what we know? This hilarious look at human history, created by Prof. Dr Ozlem Kumrular and staged by Metin Uca, will take you o...
