DATE AND VENUE

23, 24, 25.05.2000, 20.30, Aziz Nesin Stage

THEATRE STUDİO

• Written by: William Luce
• Directed by: Ahmet Levendoğlu

Lillian Hellman. One of the foremost playwrights of twentieth century America. Top screenwriter of Hollywood’s “great years”. Author of best sellers by way of her memoirs. A left-inclined activist of from youth to death. Supporter of political organisations. A heroine in the nation’s political arena. A commanding presence in America’s cultural and social life for half a century and eventually a myth. Individual who stood up against the “red traitors” and who thus became a symbol of noble defiance of government run amok. The stormy love affair she had with Dashiel Hammett, the Pioneer of detective novel and a”favorite boy” of America’s thirties, is the other mainstream in Hellman’s life story. “Lillian” is the tale, written for the stage, of a person who throughout her life stood up against selfishness, injustice and exploitation.