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Play Alla Turca
2000, 60 min
A tragicomic tale of the lost…
Play Alla Turca is a contemporary piece with an original text, built upon Ottoman performing arts traditions such as Karagöz and Hacivat, Ortaoyunu, and Meddah storytelling. Bringing these traditional characters onto the contemporary stage, the play presents their unresolved stories through a tragicomic lens. It is, in essence, the melancholic expression of a play that can never quite be performed.
First staged in February 2000 at Producer’s Club, an off-Off Broadway venue in New York, the play was later presented at the New York International Fringe Festival in August 2000.
Written and Directed by
Yeşim Özsoy
Dramaturgy
Ilgın Sönmez, Kenan Yaşar
Music
John Plenge
Costume Design
Ani Pertan
Video
Genco Gülan, Güçlü Gülan
Graphic Design
Ayşe Çelem
Photos
Orhan Cem Çetin
Promotion Team
Ceyda Çaypınarlı, Idil Muşkara, İrem Muşkara
Cast (in alphabetical order): Alev Cınbarcı (Gossiping Woman), Ali Özmen (Karagöz), Batur Belirdi (Pişekâr), Burhan Ökmen (Meddah), Ceyda Aşar (Gossiping Woman), Ebru Nergiz (Belly Dancer), Figen Şakacı (Kavuklu), Ilgın Sönmez (Critic), İdil Muşkara (The Nonexistent Woman), Kenan Yaşar (Critic), Mahir Cura (Kavuklu Arkası), Mehmet İzzet Gülenler (Hacivat), Yeşim Özsoy (Oracle of the Past)