DATE AND VENUE

20.05.2000, 20.30
21.05.2000, 15.00
Muhsin Ertuğrul Stage

İSTANBUL BÜYÜKŞEHİR BELEDİYESİ ŞEHİR TİYATROLARI

• Written and Directed by: Kenan Işık

“Hüsn’ü Aşk” one of Şeyh Galib’s poetic masterpieces, is a work composed of rhyming couplets that mediates on the obstacles to attaining divine love while drawing upon İslamic mystical philosophy, Sufıism. When compared to other works of classical Ottoman literature, Galib’s abstract symbols and subtlety of phrasing had a revolutionary quality. Kenan Işık’s “Lovesick” bears strong ties with Galib’s verses as a result of his urge to acknowledge the richness of Galib’s imagery, and to bring a sense of poet’s delicacy of expression to his own work. With “Lovesick” Işık journeys through the late 18th century Ottoman world and art towards today’s theatre and social relations. He tries to investigate what means to be an “artist”. “Lovesick” focuses on a young actor. This character is impacted by Şeyh Galib and questions his own life through the poet’s and vice versa, thus bringing historical, social and psychological perspectives to the concept of the artist. In this performance, it is not a life or lives that are truly being examined, but rather art and the artist’s creative process.