DATE AND VENUE

27.05.2000, 20.30
28.05.2000, 15.00, 20.30

A PROJECT BY ROBERT WİLSON

• Text: “ The Island of the Day Before” Umberto Eco, “Tone Poems” Christopher Knowles
• Producer: Change Performing Arts
• Co-Producers: Lincoln Center Festival New York, Uluslararası İstanbul Tiyatro Festivali, MC93 Bobigny - Paris

“The Days Before” is conceived, designed and directed by Robert Wilson. The text is based on Umberto Eco’s “The Island of the Day before” and Tone Poems by Christopher Knowles. It is a journey through the spaces explored in Umberto Eco’s text. In this story, a shipwrecked man, Roberto, from the 17th century, searches endlessly for the meridian, the linet hat separates today from yesterday, where on one side it is stil the day before. “The Days Before” contains two acts and twelve scenes. Between each scene is a Knee Play or entr’acte. For its imagery and ideas, it drows upon Western mythologies of the Apocalypse. As a piece in continuous development, it contains elements of both destruction and reconstruction. Past, present and future coexist tangibly. The music is composed by Ryuichi Sakamoto. His score for Bertoloucci’s “The Last Emperor” had won him an Oscar, a Grammy and a Golden Globe Award for best soundtrack. “Little Boddha”, “Wuthering Heights”, “Forbidden Colors”, “Snake Eyes” are some of his renowned film themes. The famous model and actress Isabella Rosellini made her cinematic debut with Paolo and Vittorio Taviani’s “Il Pratto”. She received a Golden Globe Award nomination for her role in “Crime of the Century” and an Emmy Award nomination for “Chicago Hope”. Semiha Berksoy, a prima donna of the Turkish opera is the special guest actress of “The Days Before”.