THE STATE OF WOMEN

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DATE AND VENUE

30,31.05 2002
Rumeli Fortress

A PROJECT BY YÜCEL ERTEN

  • Written by: Aristophanes, Yücel Erten
  • Directed by: Yücel Erten
  • Producer: AYSA Organizasyon

The story goes back some 2,400 years. Women are dissatisfied with the governance of men. They steal their husbands’ clothes, enter Parliament dressed as men and decide to vote for women to assume the reins of government. Once this plan is achieved, the women set to work to establish a communal state. It’s isn’t long before the men become displeased with the women’s utopian vision, which begins to be criticised from all sides. This time, the men get down to work... Yücel Erten initially started with the intention of adapting Aristophanes’ "Ekkleziazusen". Sections of this play, thought to have been written in 392 BC, have not survived. Erten’s efforts at adapting and completing the remaining manuscript resulted in an entirely new work... While the play takes a contemporary look at the ancient comedy from the viewpoint of the shores of Anatolia, it also examines relations between the sexes, with all their contradictions, dilemmas and equations.

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