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House of Hundred
2018, 75’
Blending reality and fiction through its semi-autobiographical structure, the play takes shape as the stories created by writer, director, and performer Yeşim Özsoy from her own personal history meet video and music on stage.
The memories and stories told by Özsoy’s grandmother, born in 1919, about a mansion that no longer exists—demolished in 1959—as well as fragments of the past and of Özsoy’s childhood, are brought to the stage through a documentary-like language. In doing so, a century of history unfolds before the audience through a deeply personal and subjective perspective.
*The House of a Hundred Years was developed under the overarching title “Haunted Houses”, exploring the concept of nationhood, in a multinational co-production between GalataPerform (Turkey), The Red House Centre for Culture and Debate (Bulgaria), Experimental Stage / -1 (Greece), Theater Neumarkt (Switzerland), and Studio Я / Maxim Gorki Theatre (Germany). The project was created within the framework of the festival “War or Peace: Crossroads of History 1918–2018” and was supported by the German Federal Foreign Office.
Text and Concept
Yeşim Özsoy, Ferdi Çetin
Directed and Performed by
Yeşim Özsoy
Dramaturgy
Ferdi Çetin
Video and Film Design
Melisa Önel
Music and Sound Design
Kıvanç Sarıkuş
Lighting Design and Technical Coordination
Ayşe Ayter
Choreography
Tuğçe Tuna
Project Assistant
Nilay Yerebasmaz
Sound and Light Control
Hasan Hakan Yılmaz
Documentary Video Participants
Yeşim Özsoy, Turan Necdet Özcan
Mansion Video Performers
Elif Ongan Tekçe, Sanem Öge, Emir Politi, Yaman Ceri
Director of Photography
Arda Yıldıran
Camera Assistants
Hasan Öztaş, Uğurcan Tüzel
Voice Actors
Katayoun Momtaheni, Karin Ataoğlu, Nükhet Akkaya, Elif Ongan Tekçe, Enginay Gültekin, Ayşe Lebriz Berkem, Yeşim Özsoy
“An intriguing-sounding installation that combines video, live looping, traditional Turkish music and sound effects to evoke the transition of an Istanbul mansion from the Ottoman era to the present day.” Mark Fisher, Lyndsey Winship, Brian Logan, The Guardian
“Chronicling 100 years of Turkish history in a single hour is a tall order. This multimedia piece created by Yesim Ozsoy packs enough material into its running time to fuel a dozen Fringe shows.” Alan Radcliff, The Times
“A commendable work in which theatrical skill—whether rooted in the text or reflected in its stage interpretation—is fully internalized and absorbed, allowing its aesthetic embodiment to resonate and expand.” Sadık Aslankara, Tiyatro Dergisi