DATE AND VENUE

24, 25.05.1998, 20.30, Muhsin Ertuğrul Stage

THEATRE STUDIO

• Written by: Jean Genet
• Directed by: Başar Sabuncu

Genet’s “The Balcony” is set in a brothel where elaborate fantasies of power and authority are acted out by clients with the guidence of prostitues. But when the revolution “outside” destroys the “real” Queen , Judge, Archbishop etc., the brothel’s clientele and personel are called on as replacements... Existence is the perception of some other person of the contraposition of what people “are” and what they “do.” It is costume and gesture that count, now knowledge or integrity. A nobody becomes a somebody by putting on the right mask and speaking the appropriate lines. Still, nothing is what it “is” as Genet himself advises in his notes on the “Balcony”: Are the revolutionaires inside or outside the brothel? Everything must be played equivocally, right to the “end”... Theatre Studio, dedicated to staging select works of contemporary theatre formerly not presented in Turkey, once again does just that by staging the long-neglected “The Balcony”.