DATE AND VENUE

29.05.1999, 21.00
30.05.1999, 15.30
Muhsin Ertuğrul Stage

ISTANBUL MUNİCİPAL THEATRES

• Written by: Heiner Müller
• Directed by: Paul Plamper

This play takes place after the 1789 French Bourgeois Revolution and tells the story of three revolutionary idealists who are sent on a mission to Jamaica. “Mission” is a different style of theatre, due to both Heiner Müller’s mode of expression and its ability to involve the audience in a discussion in the face of what occurs on the stage. The play covers the painful time during which a villager, a slave-owner and a former slave, each disaffected for different reasons by the developments in Jamaica, fall into a state of despair due to the French Revolution and the Republic formed afterwards which seem to have lost sight of the ideals and principles they began with. A longtime assistant to Heiner Müller and one of the young directors of the Berliner Ensemble, Paul Plamper, says “If history is not understood, it repeats itself.” Maybe this is why he focuses on the importance of undoing the knots of the past and creating hope or hopelessness in the future through new works in his direction of “Mission” in Istanbul.